  The applicability of Coulomb dissociation reactions to determine the cross
section for the inverse neutron capture reaction was explored using the
reaction 8Li(gamma,n)7Li. A 69.5 MeV/nucleon 8Li beam was incident on a Pb
target, and the outgoing neutron and 7Li nucleus were measured in coincidence.
The deduced (n,gamma) excitation function is consistent with data for the
direct capture reaction 7Li(n,gamma)8Li and with low-energy effective field
theory calculations.
