ISSN:
1434-601X
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract Cross sections for the production of evaporation residues in a fusion reaction have been extracted from measurements of cross sections for elastic, quasi-elastic and deep inelastic scattering of40Ar projectiles on40Ca target nuclei at incident energies ELAB=191, 236 and 272 MeV. The extracted data are compared with the predictions of a one-body window-friction model including a neck configuration in the interaction phase between the projectile and target nuclei. Furthermore, the results for the40Ar+40Ca system are compared to those obtained in the similarly mass-symmetric system40Ca+40Ca where directly measured evaporation residue data are available. The fusion reaction in heavy ion collisions has so far been studied mostly at low incident energies and for systems where the fusion cross section is in good approximation given by the cross section for evaporation residues [1]. This approximation has been verified only for heavy interacting systems (A〉 100 for the combined system). In this paper we comment on the problems of fusion cross sections for the lighter projectile-target combination40Ar+40a and give evidence that this approximation may not be generally valid.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01414272
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