Three-body model for the complete fusion of a two-cluster composite projectile with a heavy target

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to show that within a three-body description, the complete fusion process and the target excitation by the projectile can be taken into account by introducing a three-body optical potential in the formalism. We give a schematic description of such a potential and points to ways of testing the validity of the CDCC.

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures Proceedings of the International Conference on Clustering Aspects of Nuclear Structure and Dynamics (CLUSTER'03)