Systematic failure of the Woods-Saxon nuclear potential to describe both fusion and elastic scattering: Possible need for a new dynamical approach to fusion
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- 30 August 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review C
- Vol. 70 (2), 024605
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.70.024605
Abstract
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 barrier passing model of fusion. They give values for the empirical diffuseness parameter ranging between 0.75 and , compared with values of about which generally reproduce elastic scattering data. There is a clear tendency for the deduced to increase strongly with the reaction charge product , and some evidence for the effect of nuclear structure on the value of , particularly with regard to the degree of neutron richness of the fusing nuclei, and possibly with regard to deformation. The measured fusion-barrier energies are always lower than those of the bare potentials used, which is expected as a result of adiabatic coupling to high energy collective states. This difference increases with increasing and calculations show that about of it may be attributed to coupling to the isoscalar giant-quadrupole resonances in the target and projectile. Coupling to all giant resonances may account for a significant part. Fluctuations about the trend line may be due to systematic errors in the data and/or structure effects such as coupling to collective octupole states. Previously suggested reasons for the large values of have been related to departures from the Woods-Saxon potential and to dissipative effects. This work suggests that the apparently large values of may be an artifact of trying to describe the dynamical fusion process by use of a static potential. Another partial explaination might reside in fusion inhibition, due for example to deep-inelastic scattering, again a process requiring dynamical calculations.
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