Hindrance in the fusion of ${}^{48}$Ca+${}^{48}$Ca

H. Esbensen, C. L. Jiang, A. M. Stefanini

The coupled-channels technique is applied to analyze recent fusion data for ${}^{48}$Ca+${}^{48}$Ca. The calculations include the excitations of the low-lying $2^{+}$, $3^{-}$ and $5^{-}$ st…