Continuum damping effects in nuclear collisions associated with twisted boundary conditions

Abstract

The time-dependent Skyrme Hartree-Fock calculations have been performed to study ${}^{24}$Mg +${}^{24}$Mg collisions. The twisted boundary conditions, which can avoid finite box-size effects of the employed 3D coordinate space, have been implemented. The prolate deformed ${}^{24}$Mg has been set to different orientations to study vibrations and rotations of the compound nucleus ${}^{48}$Cr. Our time evolution results show continuum damping effects associated with the twist-averaged boundary condition play a persistent role after the fusion stage. In particular, a rotational damping in continuum is presented in calculations of both twist-averaged and absorbing boundary conditions, in which damping widths can be clearly extracted. It is unusual that the rotating compound nucleus in continuum evolves towards spherical but still has a considerable angular momentum.

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRC