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 …

Comparison of different proximity potentials for asymmetric colliding nuclei

I Dutt, RK Puri - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2010 - APS
Using the different versions of phenomenological proximity potential as well as other
parametrizations within the proximity concept, we perform a detailed comparative study of …

Systematic failure of the Woods-Saxon nuclear potential to describe both fusion and elastic scattering: Possible need for a new dynamical approach to fusion

JO Newton, RD Butt, M Dasgupta, DJ Hinde… - Physical Review C …, 2004 - APS
A large number of precision fusion excitation functions, at energies above the average
fusion barriers, have been fitted using the Woods-Saxon form for the nuclear potential in a …

[HTML][HTML] Cross sections for the production of superheavy nuclei

VI Zagrebaev, W Greiner - Nuclear Physics A, 2015 - Elsevier
Production and studying properties of superheavy (SH) nuclei meet significant experimental
difficulties owing to extremely low cross sections of their formation in heavy ion fusion or …

Effects of nuclear deformation and neutron transfer in capture processes, and fusion hindrance at deep sub-barrier energies

VV Sargsyan, GG Adamian, NV Antonenko… - Physical Review C …, 2011 - APS
The roles of nuclear deformation and neutron transfer in sub-barrier capture process are
studied within the quantum diffusion approach. The change of the deformations of colliding …

Sub-barrier fusion of the magic nuclei

M Trotta, AM Stefanini, L Corradi, A Gadea… - Physical Review C, 2001 - APS
The fusion excitation functions of 4 0, 4 8 Ca+ 48 Ca have been measured near and below
the Coulomb barrier and the fusion barrier distributions have been extracted from the data …

Applications of Skyrme energy-density functional to fusion reactions spanning the fusion barriers

M Liu, N Wang, Z Li, X Wu, E Zhao - Nuclear Physics A, 2006 - Elsevier
The Skyrme energy density functional has been applied to the study of heavy-ion fusion
reactions. The barriers for fusion reactions are calculated by the Skyrme energy density …

Empirical nucleus-nucleus potential deduced from fusion excitation functions

K Siwek-Wilczyńska, J Wilczyński - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2004 - APS
Existing data on near-barrier fusion excitation functions for 48 medium and heavy nucleus-
nucleus systems have been analyzed using a simple “diffused-barrier formula” derived …

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 …

Systematics of precise nuclear fusion cross sections: the need for a new dynamical treatment of fusion?

JO Newton, RD Butt, M Dasgupta, DJ Hinde… - Physics Letters B, 2004 - Elsevier
A large number of precision fusion excitation functions, at energies above the average
fusion barriers, have been fitted using the Woods–Saxon form for the nuclear potential …