A Semiclassical Approach to Fusion Reactions

Abstract

The semiclassical method of Alder and Winther is generalized to study fusion reactions. As an illustration, we evaluate the fusion cross section in a schematic two-channel calculation. The results are shown to be in good agreement with those obtained with a quantal Coupled-Channels calculation. We suggest that in the case of coupling to continuum states this approach may provide a simpler alternative to the Continuum Discretized Coupled-Channels method.

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure, invited talk at the International Symposium "A new era of Nuclear Structure Physics", Niigata, Japan, Nov. 19-22 2003