Microscopic study of ${}^{40}$Ca+${}^{58,64}$Ni fusion reactions

Abstract

Background: Heavy-ion fusion reactions at energies near the Coulomb barrier are influenced by couplings between the relative motion and nuclear intrinsic degrees of freedom of the colliding nuclei. The time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory, incorporating the couplings at the mean-field level, as well as the coupled-channels (CC) method are standard approaches to describe low energy nuclear reactions. Purpose: To investigate the effect of couplings to inelastic and transfer channels on the fusion cross sections for the reactions ${}^{40}$Ca+${}^{58}$Ni and ${}^{40}$Ca+${}^{64}$Ni. Methods: Fusion cross sections around and below the Coulomb barrier have been obtained from coupled-channels (CC) calculations, using the bare nucleus-nucleus potential calculated with the frozen Hartree-Fock method and coupling parameters taken from known nuclear structure data. The fusion thresholds and neutron transfer probabilities have been calculated with the TDHF method. Results: For ${}^{40}$Ca+${}^{58}$Ni, the TDHF fusion threshold is in agreement with the most probable barrier obtained in the CC calculations including the couplings to the low-lying octupole $3_1^{-}$ state for ${}^{40}$Ca and to the low-lying quadrupole $2_1^{+}$ state for ${}^{58}$Ni. This indicates that the octupole and quadrupole states are the dominant excitations while neutron transfer is shown to be weak. For ${}^{40}$Ca+${}^{64}$Ni, the TDHF barrier is lower than predicted by the CC calculations including the same inelastic couplings as those for ${}^{40}$Ca+${}^{58}$Ni. TDHF calculations show large neutron transfer probabilities in ${}^{40}$Ca+${}^{64}$Ni which could result in a lowering of the fusion threshold. Conclusions: Inelastic channels play an important role in ${}^{40}$Ca+${}^{58}$Ni and ${}^{40}$Ca+${}^{64}$Ni reactions. The role of neutron transfer channels has been highlighted in ${}^{40}$Ca+${}^{64}$Ni.

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