Microscopic study of Ca-40+Ni-58,Ni-64 fusion reactions
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2016
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Bourgin, D.
Simenel, Cedric
Courtin, S
Haas, F.
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American Physical Society
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Background: Heavy-ion fusion reactions at energies near the Coulomb barrier are influenced by couplings between the relative motion and nuclear intrinsic degrees of freedom of the colliding nuclei. The time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory, incorporating the couplings at the mean-field level, as well as the coupled-channels (CC) method are standard approaches to describe low energy nuclear reactions.
Purpose: To investigate the effect of couplings to inelastic and transfer channels on the fusion cross sections for the reactions Ca40+Ni58 and Ca40+Ni64.
Methods: Fusion cross sections around and below the Coulomb barrier have been obtained from CC calculations, using the bare nucleus-nucleus potential calculated with the frozen Hartree-Fock method and coupling parameters taken from known nuclear structure data. The fusion thresholds and neutron transfer probabilities have been calculated with the TDHF method.
Results: For Ca40+Ni58, the TDHF fusion threshold is in agreement with the most probable barrier obtained in the CC calculations including the couplings to the low-lying octupole 3−1 state for Ca40 and to the low-lying quadrupole 2+1 state for Ni58. This indicates that the octupole and quadrupole states are the dominant excitations while neutron transfer is shown to be weak. For Ca40+Ni64, the TDHF barrier is lower than predicted by the CC calculations including the same inelastic couplings as those for Ca40+Ni58. TDHF calculations show large neutron transfer probabilities in Ca40+Ni64 which could result in a lowering of the fusion threshold.
Conclusions: Inelastic channels play an important role in Ca40+Ni58 and Ca40+Ni64 reactions. The role of neutron transfer channels has been highlighted in Ca40+Ni64.
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Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics
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