110 research outputs found
Transfer reactions in the sudden limit of the pairing-rotor model
The transfer of multiple pairs of particles in heavy-ion reactions is studied in the sudden limit of the macroscopic pairing-rotor model
Dominance of Nuclear Processes in the Dissociation of 8B
We study the break-up of 8B in collisions with heavy-ions. The process is
described in terms of inelastic excitations leading to states in the continuum.
The effects of the nuclear and coulomb fields are included on the same
footing in the microscopic construction of the transition matrix elements. The
interplay between coulomb and nuclear excitation processes differs
significantly from the situation encountered in reactions involving systems
close to the stability line. In particular, nuclear excitation is found to
remain predominant at energies well below the coulomb barrier,Comment: TEX file + 11 postscript figure
Radiation correction to astrophysical fusion reactions and the electron screening problem
We discuss the effect of electromagnetic environment on laboratory
measurements of the nuclear fusion reactions of astrophysical interest. The
radiation field is eliminated using the path integral formalism in order to
obtain the influence functional, which we evaluate in the semi-classical
approximation. We show that enhancement of the tunneling probability due to the
radiation correction is extremely small and does not resolve the longstanding
problem that the observed electron screening effect is significantly larger
than theoretical predictions.Comment: 9 pages, 1 eps figure
Effect of continuum couplings in fusion of halo Be on Pb around the Coulomb barrier
The effect of continuum couplings in the fusion of the halo nucleus Be
on Pb around the Coulomb barrier is studied using a three-body model
within a coupled discretised continuum channels (CDCC) formalism. We
investigate in particular the role of continuum-continuum couplings. These are
found to hinder total, complete and incomplete fusion processes. Couplings to
the projectile bound excited state redistribute the complete and
incomplete fusion cross sections, but the total fusion cross section remains
nearly constant. Results show that continuum-continuum couplings enhance the
irreversibility of breakup and reduce the flux that penetrates the Coulomb
barrier. Converged total fusion cross sections agree with the experimental ones
for energies around the Coulomb barrier, but underestimate those for energies
well above the Coulomb barrier.Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures, accepted in Phys. Rev.
Dynamical effects in heavy-ion interactions at bombarding energies near the Coulomb barrier: A study for the 16O + 120Sn system
Abstract We investigate the magnitude of the effective interactions for elastic and inelastic processes at bombarding energies in the vicinity of the nominal Coulomb barrier. The relevance of higher-order inelastic and transfer processes in defining the strength of the effective couplings is explored in a reaction with a superfluid target, 16 O on 120 Sn, at center-of-mass energies of 46, 50 and 54 MeV. Significant dynamical effects are found and these appear to be more pronounced in the off-diagonal matrix elements than in the diagonal ones. Theoretical arguments related to the data are presented
Progressive transformation of a flux rope to an ICME
The solar wind conditions at one astronomical unit (AU) can be strongly
disturbed by the interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). A subset,
called magnetic clouds (MCs), is formed by twisted flux ropes that transport an
important amount of magnetic flux and helicity which is released in CMEs. At 1
AU from the Sun, the magnetic structure of MCs is generally modeled neglecting
their expansion during the spacecraft crossing. However, in some cases, MCs
present a significant expansion. We present here an analysis of the huge and
significantly expanding MC observed by the Wind spacecraft during 9 and 10
November, 2004. After determining an approximated orientation for the flux rope
using the minimum variance method, we precise the orientation of the cloud axis
relating its front and rear magnetic discontinuities using a direct method.
This method takes into account the conservation of the azimuthal magnetic flux
between the in- and out-bound branches, and is valid for a finite impact
parameter (i.e., not necessarily a small distance between the spacecraft
trajectory and the cloud axis). Moreover, using the direct method, we find that
the ICME is formed by a flux rope (MC) followed by an extended coherent
magnetic region. These observations are interpreted considering the existence
of a previous larger flux rope, which partially reconnected with its
environment in the front. These findings imply that the ejected flux rope is
progressively peeled by reconnection and transformed to the observed ICME (with
a remnant flux rope in the front part).Comment: Solar Physics (in press
On the Excitation of Double Giant Resonances in Heavy Ion Reactions
The interplay of nuclear and Coulomb processes in the inelastic excitation of
single- and double-phonon giant resonances in heavy ion collisions is studied
within a simple reaction model. Predominance of the Coulomb excitation
mechanism on the population of the single-phonon and, on the contrary,
predominance of the nuclear excitation for the double-phonon is evidenced. The
effect of the spreading of the strength distribution of the giant resonances on
the excitation process is analyzed, showing sizeable modifications in the case
of Coulomb dominated processes.Comment: Accepten in Nuclear Physics A. 10 eps figures and source file in an
uncompressed tar packag
Neutron Transfer Dynamics and Doorway to Fusion in Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock Theory
We analyze the details of mass exchange in the vicinity of the Coulomb
barrier for heavy-ion collisions involving neutron-rich nuclei using the
time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory. We discuss the time-dependence of
transfer and show that the potential barriers seen by individual
single-particle states can be considerably different than the effective barrier
for the two interacting nuclei having a single center-of-mass. For this reason
we observe a substantial transfer probability even at energies below the
effective barrier.Comment: 6 pages, 9 figure
Dynamical description of the breakup of one-neutron halo nuclei 11Be and 19C
We investigate the breakup of the one-neutron halo nuclei 11Be and 19C within
a dynamical model of the continuum excitation of the projectile. The time
evolution of the projectile in coordinate space is described by solving the
three-dimensional time dependent Schroedinger equation, treating the
projectile-target (both Coulomb and nuclear) interaction as a time dependent
external perturbation. The pure Coulomb breakup dominates the relative energy
spectra of the fragments in the peak region, while the nuclear breakup is
important at higher relative energies. The coherent sum of the two
contributions provides a good overall description of the experimental spectra.
Cross sections of the first order perturbation theory are derived as a limit of
our dynamical model. The dynamical effects are found to be of the order of
10-15% for the beam energies in the range of 60 - 80 MeV/nucleon. A comparison
of our results with those of a post form distorted wave Born approximation
shows that the magnitudes of the higher order effects are dependent on the
theoretical model.Comment: 15 pages, ReVTeX, 5 figures, typos corrected, accepted for
publication in Physical Review
Role of dynamical particle-vibration coupling in reconciliation of the puzzle for spherical proton emitters
It has been observed that decay rate for proton emission from
single particle state is systematically quenched compared with the prediction
of a one dimensional potential model although the same model successfully
accounts for measured decay rates from and states. We
reconcile this discrepancy by solving coupled-channels equations, taking into
account couplings between the proton motion and vibrational excitations of a
daughter nucleus. We apply the formalism to proton emitting nuclei
Re to show that there is a certain range of parameter set of the
excitation energy and the dynamical deformation parameter for the quadrupole
phonon excitation which reproduces simultaneously the experimental decay rates
from the 2, 3 and 1 states in these nuclei.Comment: RevTex, 12 pages, 4 eps figure
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