38 research outputs found
Quantum effects in the diffusion process to form a heavy nucleus in heavy-ion fusion reactions
We discuss quantum effects in the diffusion process which is used to describe the shape evolution from the touching configuration of fusing two nuclei to a compound nucleus. Applying the theory with quantum effects to the case where the potential field, the mass and friction parameters are adapted to realistic values of heavy-ion collisions, we show that the quantum effects play significant roles at low temperatures which are relevant to the synthesis of superheavy elements
Influence of Tunneling on Electron Screening in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions
Using a semiclassical mean field theory, we show that the screening potential exhibits a characteristic radial variation in the tunneling region in sharp contrast to the assumption of the constant shift in all previous works. Also, we show that the explicit treatment of the tunneling region gives a larger screening energy than that in the conventional approach, which studies the time evolution only in the classical region and estimates the screening energy from the screening potential at the external classical turning point. This modification becomes important if the electronic state is not a single adiabatic state at the external turning point. Furthermore, as an alternative solution of the screening problem, we give the estimation for the effect of extra electrons which are caught into the ground state of the projectile by using constraint molecular dynamics
Screening effects on neutrino-nucleus reactions
Tours symposium on nuclear physics VI : Tours 2006, Tours, France 5-8 September 2006 / editors, M. Arnould ... [et al.
Applicability of the orientation average formula in heavy-ion fusion reactions of deformed nuclei
In heavy-ion fusion reactions involving a well deformed nucleus, one often
assumes that the orientation of the target nucleus does not change during the
reaction. We discuss the accuracy of this procedure by analyzing the excitation
function of the fusion cross section and the fusion barrier distribution in the
reactions of Sm target with various projectiles ranging from C
to Ar. It is shown that the approximation gradually looses its accuracy
with increasing charge product of the projectile and target nuclei because of
the effects of finite excitation energy of the target nucleus. The relevance of
such inaccuracy in analyzing the experimental data is also discussed.Comment: 5 pages and 3 figure
Influence of tunneling on electron screening in low energy nuclear reactions in laboratories
Using a semiclassical mean field theory, we show that the screening potential
exhibits a characteristic radial variation in the tunneling region in sharp
contrast to the assumption of the constant shift in all previous works. Also,
we show that the explicit treatment of the tunneling region gives a larger
screening energy than that in the conventional approach, which studies the time
evolution only in the classical region and estimates the screening energy from
the screening potential at the external classical turning point. This
modification becomes important if the electronic state is not a single
adiabatic state at the external turning point either by pre-tunneling
transitions of the electronic state or by the symmetry of the system even if
there is no essential change with the electronic state in the tunneling region.Comment: 3 figure
Coulomb interaction between a spherical and a deformed nuclei
We present analytic expressions of the Coulomb interaction between a
spherical and a deformed nuclei which are valid for all separation distance. We
demonstrate their significant deviations from commonly used formulae in the
region inside the Coulomb radius, and show that they remove various
shortcomings of the conventional formulae.Comment: 7 pages 4 figure