Probing the sensitivity of the total nucleus-nucleus reaction cross section at intermediate energies to medium effects and isospin asymmetries
- Physics Department, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844-0903 (United States)
This paper presents reaction cross-section predictions. These predictions are the result of a continuous pipeline that originates from a microscopic nuclear interaction. Density parameters and effective nucleon-nucleon cross sections (both involved in the reaction calculations) are by-products of the same equation of state. First, we perform tests of sensitivity to medium effects using reactions involving {sup 208}Pb, a stable but weakly isospin-asymmetric nucleus. We also show predictions for collisions of some neutron-rich isotopes of calcium and argon. We observe significant sensitivity of the reaction cross section to medium effects but very weak sensitivity to inclusion of isospin asymmetry in the effective nucleon-nucleon cross sections.
- OSTI ID:
- 21502786
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 83, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.83.064602; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2813
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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