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Strange freezeout
We argue that known systematics of hadron cross sections may cause different
particles to freeze out of the fireball produced in heavy-ion collisions at
different times. We find that a simple model with two freezeout points is a
better description of data than that with a single freezeout, while still
remaining predictive. The resulting fits seem to present constraints on the
late stage evolution of the fireball, including the tantalizing possibility
that the QCD chiral transition influences the yields at sqrt(S)=2700 GeV and
the QCD critical point those at sqrt(S)=17.3 GeV
Dynamical cluster-decay model for hot and rotating light-mass nuclear systems, applied to low-energy S + Mg Ni reaction
The dynamical cluster-decay model (DCM) is developed further for the decay of
hot and rotating compound nuclei (CN) formed in light heavy-ion reactions. The
model is worked out in terms of only one parameter, namely the neck-length
parameter, which is related to the total kinetic energy TKE(T) or effective
Q-value at temperature T of the hot CN, defined in terms of the
both the light-particles (LP), with 4, Z 2, as well as the
complex intermediate mass fragments (IMF), with , is
considered as the dynamical collective mass motion of preformed clusters
through the barrier. Within the same dynamical model treatment, the LPs are
shown to have different characteristics as compared to the IMFs. The systematic
variation of the LP emission cross section , and IMF emission
cross section , calculated on the present DCM match exactly the
statistical fission model predictions. It is for the first time that a
non-statistical dynamical description is developed for the emission of
light-particles from the hot and rotating CN. The model is applied to the decay
of Ni formed in the S + Mg reaction at two incident
energies E = 51.6 and 60.5 MeV. Both the IMFs and average
spectra are found to compare reasonably nicely with the experimental data,
favoring asymmetric mass distributions. The LPs emission cross section is shown
to depend strongly on the type of emitted particles and their multiplicities
Barrier modification in sub-barrier fusion reactions using Wong formula with Skyrme forces in semiclassical formalism
We obtain the nuclear proximity potential by using semiclassical extended
Thomas Fermi (ETF) approach in Skyrme energy density formalism (SEDF), and use
it in the extended -summed Wong formula under frozen density
approximation. This method has the advantage of allowing the use of different
Skyrme forces, giving different barriers. Thus, for a given reaction, we could
choose a Skyrme force with proper barrier characteristics, not-requiring extra
``barrier lowering" or ``barrier narrowing" for a best fit to data. For the
Ni+Mo reaction, the -summed Wong formula, with effects of
deformations and orientations of nuclei included, fits the fusion-evaporation
cross section data exactly for the force GSkI, requiring additional barrier
modifications for forces SIII and SV. However, the same for other similar
reactions, like Ni+Ni, fits the data best for SIII force.
Hence, the barrier modification effects in -summed Wong expression
depends on the choice of Skyrme force in extended ETF method.Comment: INPC2010, Vancouver, CANAD
Shell closure effects studied via cluster decay in heavy nuclei
The effects of shell closure in nuclei via the cluster decay is studied. In
this context, we have made use of the Preformed Cluster Model () of Gupta
and collaborators based on the Quantum Mechanical Fragmentation Theory. The key
point in the cluster radioactivity is that it involves the interplay of close
shell effects of parent and daughter. Small half life for a parent indicates
shell stabilized daughter and long half life indicates the stability of the
parent against the decay. In the cluster decay of trans lead nuclei observed so
far, the end product is doubly magic lead or its neighbors. With this in our
mind we have extended the idea of cluster radioactivity. We investigated decay
of different nuclei where Zirconium is always taken as a daughter nucleus,
which is very well known deformed nucleus. The branching ratio of cluster decay
and -decay is also studied for various nuclei, leading to magic or
almost doubly magic daughter nuclei. The calculated cluster decay half-life are
in well agreement with the observed data. First time a possibility of cluster
decay in nucleus is predicted
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