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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 306, 2024
FUSION23 – International Conference on Heavy-Ion Collisions at Near-Barrier Energies
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Article Number | 01028 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202430601028 | |
Published online | 18 October 2024 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202430601028
Interplay of breakup and fusion in near-barrier collisions of weakly-bound nuclides
Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601 Australia
* e-mail: edward.simpson@anu.edu.au
Published online: 18 October 2024
Light, weakly-bound nuclides such as 6,7Li and 9Be exhibit a diverse range of near-barrier reaction phenomena. Complete fusion is found to be suppressed by up to 35% with respect to barrier-passing model calculations. Their weak binding leads to significant breakup through excitation of the continuum, but also through production of weakly-bound or unbound neighbouring nuclides via nucleon transfer. Such systems also exhibit large yields of incomplete fusion, which is correlated empirically with cluster breakup thresholds for these stable nuclides.
Disentangling these reaction phenomena and their complex interplay is one of the most interesting challenges in near-barrier reaction dynamics. Here we briefly review our recent progress in understanding the interplay between breakup and fusion. These results strongly suggest that the dominant mechanism leading to incomplete fusion and the suppression of complete fusion is direct capture of the projectile cluster constituents by the target nucleus, rather than requiring projectile breakup prior to fusion.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2024
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