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Anharmonic phonon excitations in subbarrier fusion reactions

Nuclear Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

Recently measured high precision data of fusion excitation function have enabled a detailed study on the effects of nuclear collective excitations on fusion reactions. Using such highly accurate data of the 16^{16}O + 144,148^{144,148}Sm reactions, we discuss the anharmonic properties of collective phonon excitations in 144,148^{144,148}Sm nuclei. It is shown that subbarrier fusion reactions are strongly affected by the anharmonic effects and thus offer an alternative method to extract the static quadrupole moments of phonon states in a spherical nucleus.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9709068,
  title  = {Anharmonic phonon excitations in subbarrier fusion reactions},
  author = {K. Hagino and N. Takigawa and S. Kuyucak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9709068},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, To be published in the Proceedings of the Tours Symposium on Nuclear Physics III, Tours, France, September 1997 (American Institute of Physics)