[Submitted on 13 Jun 2022] (cross-list from nucl-ex)
Proton and neutron exchange as a prelude to fusion at near-barrier energies
J.E. Johnstone🇺🇸 · Varinderjit Singh🇺🇸 · R. Giri🇺🇸 · S. Hudan🇺🇸 · J. Vadas🇺🇸 · R.T. deSouza🇺🇸 · D. Ackermann🇫🇷 · A. Chbihi🇫🇷 · Q. Hourdille🇫🇷 · A. Abbott🇺🇸 · C. Balhoff🇺🇸 · A. Hannaman🇺🇸 and 11 other authors
Systematic examination of fusion for K + Si and Ar + Si provides insight into the impact of neutron and proton exchange on fusion for nuclei at and near the N=20 and N=28 shells. Comparison of the reduced excitation functions reveals a marked difference between the behavior of open-shell and closed-shell systems. While coupled channels calculations provide a good description for the closed-shell nuclei they significantly under-predict the fusion cross-section for open-shell nuclei. The observed trends are examined in the context of a potential energy surface, including shell effects, and multi-nucleon exchange with consideration of Pauli-blocking.
- Comments:
- 7 pages, 4 figures
- Subjects:
- Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
- arXiv:
- 2206.06436 [pdf]