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We use a three-body Continuum Discretized Coupled Channel (CDCC) model to investigate Coulomb and nuclear effects in breakup and reaction cross sections. The breakup of the projectile is simulated by a finite number of square integrable…

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We carry out realistic coupled-channels calculations for $^{11}$Be + $^{208}$Pb reaction in order to discuss the effects of break-up of the projectile nucleus on sub-barrier fusion. We discretize in energy the particle continuum states,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 K. Hagino , A. Vitturi , C. H. Dasso , S. M. Lenzi

We generalize the theory of nuclear decay and capture of Gamow that is based on tunneling through the barrier and internal oscillations inside the nucleus. In our formalism an additional factor is obtained, which describes distribution of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-27 Sergei P. Maydanyuk , Peng-Ming Zhang , Li-Ping Zou

Comparing the capture cross sections calculated without the breakup effect and experimental complete fusion cross sections, the breakup was analyzed in reactions with weakly bound projectiles $^{6,7,9}$Li, $^{9,11}$Be, and $^{6,8}$He. A…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 V. V. Sargsyan , G. G. Adamian , N. V. Antonenko , W. Scheid , H. Q. Zhang

The path towards the production of \textit{r}-process seed nuclei follows a course where the neutron-rich light and medium mass nuclei play a crucial role. The neutron capture rates for these exotic nuclei could dominate over their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-03 G. Singh , Shubhchintak , R. Chatterjee

The fusion cross sections of radioactive $^{134}$Te + $^{40}$Ca were measured at energies above and below the Coulomb barrier. The evaporation residues produced in the reaction were detected in a zero-degree ionization chamber providing…

The shell correction is proposed in the improved isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamics (ImIQMD) model, which plays an important role in heavy-ion fusion reactions near Coulomb barrier. By using the ImIQMD model, the static and…

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The dynamical mechanism of multinucleon transfer (MNT) reactions has been investigated within the dinuclear system (DNS) model, in which the sequential nucleon transfer is described by solving a set of microscopically derived master…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-05 Peng-Hui Chen , Fei Niu , Wei Zuo , Zhao-Qing Feng

A steeper fall of fusion excitation function, compared to the predictions of coupled-channels models, at energies below the lowest barrier between the reaction partners, is termed as deep sub-barrier fusion hindrance. This phenomenon has…

The sub-barrier capture (fusion) reactions $^{32}$S+$^{90,94,96}$Zr, $^{36}$S+$^{90,96}$Zr, $^{40}$Ca+$^{90,94,96}$Zr, and $^{48}$Ca+$^{90,96}$Zr with positive and negative $Q$-values for neutron transfer are studied within the quantum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-08 V. V. Sargsyan , G. G. Adamian , N. V. Antonenko , W. Scheid , H. Q. Zhang

Photodetachment of H$^-$ near a potential barrier is studied. A new formula is presented for the cross sections induced by a barrier. The new formula describes two quantum effects near barrier tops. For energies near and above barrier tops,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-08-23 B. C. Yang , M. L. Du

The main progresses in the multinucleon transfer reactions at energies close to the Coulomb barrier are reviewed. After a short presentation of the experimental progress and theoretical progress,the predicted production cross sections for…

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The method of fusion barrier distribution has been widely used to interpret the effect of nuclear structure on heavy-ion fusion reactions around the Coulomb barrier. We discuss a similar, but less well known, barrier distribution extracted…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 K. Hagino , N. Rowley

Reaction theory is an essential ingredient when performing studies of nuclei far from stability. One approach for the calculation of breakup reactions of exotic nuclei into two fragments is to consider inelastic excitations into the single…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 A. M. Moro , F. M. Nunes

A novel quantum dynamical model based on the dissipative quantum dynamics of open quantum systems is presented. It allows the treatment of both deep-inelastic processes and quantum tunneling (fusion) within a fully quantum mechanical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexis Diaz-Torres , David Hinde , Mahananda Dasgupta , Gerard Milburn , Jeff Tostevin

In reactions of weakly bound nuclei, the absorption cross section mixes two physically distinct contributions: inner capture associated with compound-nucleus formation, and peripheral losses from breakup, transfer, and other direct…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Hao Liu , Jin Lei , Zhongzhou Ren

We perform a systematic study on the surface property of nucleus-nucleus potential in heavy-ion reactions using large-angle quasielastic scattering at energies well below the Coulomb barrier. At these energies, the quasielastic scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Washiyama , K. Hagino , M. Dasgupta

Nuclear fusion requires overcoming or traversing a repulsive Coulomb barrier of hundreds of kiloelectronvolts, rendering the probability of fusion at sub-keV energies vanishingly small. Yet in condensed matter, the electronic and structural…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-12-09 Micah. E. Karahadian , Matthew Colborne , Arun Persaud , Thomas Schenkel , Jeremy N. Munday

\begin{description} \item[Background] Fusion reactions play an important role in nucleosynthesis and in applications to society. Yet they remain challenging to model. \item[Purpose] In this work, we investigate the features of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 J. Rangel , B. Pinheiro , V. A. B. Zagatto , J. Lubian , F. M. Nunes , L. F. Canto

We discuss a model for the description of subbarrier fusion of heavy ions which takes into account the coupling to the low-energy surface vibrational states and to the few-nucleon transfer with arbitrary reaction Q-value. The fusion…

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