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Title: Fusion hindrance in reactions with very heavy ions: Border between normal and hindered fusion

Journal Article · · Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
;  [1];  [2];  [1];  [3]
  1. School of Science, Huzhou Teachers College, Huzhou 313000 (China)
  2. GANIL, CEA/DSM-CNRS/IN2P3, BP 55027, F-14076 Caen cedex 5 (France)
  3. Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Osaka 567-0047 (Japan)

The fusion hindrance in heavy-ion collisions is studied in the framework of the two-center liquid drop model. It appears that the neck and the radial degrees of freedom might both be hampered by an inner potential barrier on their path between the contact configuration to the compound nucleus. Heavy-ion reactions with and without the two kinds of fusion hindrance are classified through systematic calculations. It is found that the number of reactions without radial fusion hindrance is much smaller than that without neck fusion hindrance, and for both kinds of fusion hindrance the number of reactions without fusion hindrance at small mass-asymmetry parameter {alpha} is smaller than that at large {alpha}. In the formation of a given compound nucleus, if a reaction with {alpha}{sub c} is not hindered, then other reactions with {alpha}>{alpha}{sub c} are also not hindered, as is well known experimentally.

OSTI ID:
21502491
Journal Information:
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 83, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.83.054620; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2813
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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