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Importance of lifetime effects in breakup and suppression of complete fusion in reactions of weakly bound nuclei

Cook, K. J.; Simpson, E. C.; Luong, D. H.; Kalkal, Sunil; Dasgupta, M.; Hinde, David

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Complete fusion cross sections in collisions of light, weakly bound nuclei and high Z targets show above-barrier suppression of complete fusion. This has been interpreted as resulting from breakup of the weakly bound nucleus prior to reaching the fusion barrier, reducing the probability of complete fusion. This paper investigates how these conclusions are affected by lifetimes of the resonant states that are populated prior to breakup. If the mean life of a populated resonance is much...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorCook, K. J.
dc.contributor.authorSimpson, E. C.
dc.contributor.authorLuong, D. H.
dc.contributor.authorKalkal, Sunil
dc.contributor.authorDasgupta, M.
dc.contributor.authorHinde, David
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-02T05:07:40Z
dc.date.available2018-11-02T05:07:40Z
dc.identifier.issn2469-9985
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/148816
dc.description.abstractComplete fusion cross sections in collisions of light, weakly bound nuclei and high Z targets show above-barrier suppression of complete fusion. This has been interpreted as resulting from breakup of the weakly bound nucleus prior to reaching the fusion barrier, reducing the probability of complete fusion. This paper investigates how these conclusions are affected by lifetimes of the resonant states that are populated prior to breakup. If the mean life of a populated resonance is much longer than the fusion timescale, then its breakup cannot suppress complete fusion. For short-lived resonances, the situation is more complex. This work includes the mean life of the short-lived 2+ resonance in 8Be in classical dynamical model calculations to determine its effect on energy and angular correlations of the breakup fragments and on predictions of fusion suppression. Coincidence measurements of breakup fragments produced in reactions of 9Be with 144Sm, 168Er, 186W, 196Pt, 208Pb and 209Bi at energies below the barrier are re-analysed. Predictions of breakup observables and of complete and incomplete fusion at energies above the fusion barrier are made using the classical dynamical simulation code PLATYPUS, modified to include the lifetimes of short-lived resonant states. The agreement of the breakup observables is improved when lifetime effects are included. The predicted suppression of complete fusion due to breakup is nearly independent of Z, with an average value of 9%, below the experimentally determined fusion suppression of 30% in these systems. This more realistic treatment of breakup leads to the conclusion that the suppression of complete fusion cannot be fully explained by breakup prior to reaching the fusion barrier. Other mechanisms that can suppress complete fusion must be investigated. A candidate is cluster transfer that produces the same nuclei as incomplete fusion.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by ARC Grants No. FL110100098, No. DP130101569, and No. DP140101337.
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dc.publisherAmerican Physical Society
dc.rights© 2016 American Physical Society. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/2469-9985/..."author can archive publisher's version/PDF" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 2/11/18)
dc.sourcePhysical Review C
dc.titleImportance of lifetime effects in breakup and suppression of complete fusion in reactions of weakly bound nuclei
dc.typeJournal article
local.identifier.citationvolume93
dc.date.issued2016-05-20
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.aps.org/
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationCook, K. J., Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University
local.contributor.affiliationSimpson, E. C., Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University
local.contributor.affiliationLuong, D. H., Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University
local.contributor.affiliationKalkal, S., Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University
local.contributor.affiliationDasgupta, M., Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University
local.contributor.affiliationHinde, D., Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FL110100098
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP130101569
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140101337
local.bibliographicCitation.issue6
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage064604
local.identifier.doi10.1103/PhysRevC.93.064604
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