Recent developments in heavy-ion fusion reactions

BB Back, H Esbensen, CL Jiang, KE Rehm - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2014 - APS
In this review the main advances in heavy-ion fusion research that have taken place over the
last decade are addressed. During this period, experimental studies have been extended to …

Recent experimental results in sub-and near-barrier heavy-ion fusion reactions

G Montagnoli, AM Stefanini - The European Physical Journal A, 2017 - Springer
Recent advances obtained in the field of near and sub-barrier heavy-ion fusion reactions are
reviewed. Emphasis is given to the results obtained in the last decade, and focus is mainly …

Energy dependence of the nucleus-nucleus potential close to the Coulomb barrier

K Washiyama, D Lacroix - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2008 - APS
The nucleus-nucleus interaction potentials in heavy-ion fusion reactions are extracted from
the microscopic time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory for the mass symmetric reactions 16 …

How the Pauli exclusion principle affects fusion of atomic nuclei

C Simenel, AS Umar, K Godbey, M Dasgupta… - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
The Pauli exclusion principle induces a repulsion between composite systems of identical
fermions such as colliding atomic nuclei. Our goal is to study how heavy-ion fusion is …

Energy dependence of potential barriers and its effect on fusion cross sections

AS Umar, C Simenel, VE Oberacker - Physical Review C, 2014 - APS
Background: Couplings between relative motion and internal structures are known to affect
fusion barriers by dynamically modifying the densities of the colliding nuclei. The effect is …

Colliding heavy nuclei take multiple identities on the path to fusion

KJ Cook, DC Rafferty, DJ Hinde, EC Simpson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The properties of superheavy elements probe extremes of physics and chemistry. They are
synthesised at accelerator laboratories using nuclear fusion, where two atomic nuclei …

Signature of smooth transition from sudden to adiabatic states in heavy-ion fusion reactions at deep sub-barrier energies

T Ichikawa, K Hagino, A Iwamoto - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
We propose a novel extension of the standard coupled-channels framework for heavy-ion
reactions in order to analyze fusion reactions at deep-sub-barrier incident energies. This …

[HTML][HTML] Fusion of 40Ca+ 96Zr revisited: Transfer couplings and hindrance far below the barrier

AM Stefanini, G Montagnoli, H Esbensen, L Corradi… - Physics Letters B, 2014 - Elsevier
The sub-barrier fusion excitation function of 40 Ca+ 96 Zr has been measured down to cross
sections≃ 2.4 μb, ie two orders of magnitude smaller than obtained in a previous …

Role of neutron transfer in the enhancement of sub-barrier fusion excitation functions of various systems using an energy-dependent Woods-Saxon potential

MS Gautam - Physical Review C, 2014 - APS
The focus of the present article is to address the effects of the role of a neutron transfer
channel in the enhancement of sub-barrier fusion excitation function data of various heavy …

Exploring fusion at extreme sub-barrier energies with weakly bound nuclei

A Shrivastava, A Navin, A Lemasson… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
Results of measurement of residues formed in fusion of Li 6 with Pt 198 in the energy range
of<? format?> 0.68< E/V b< 1.3 using a new sensitive off-beam technique are reported. The …