Influence of nuclear structure on sub-barrier hindrance in Ni + Ni fusion

C. L. Jiang*, K. E. Rehm, R. V.F. Janssens, H. Esbensen, L. Ahmad, B. B. Back, P. Collon, C. N. Davids, J. P. Greene, D. J. Henderson, G. Mukherjee, R. C. Pardo, M. Paul, T. O. Pennington, D. Seweryniak, S. Sinha, Z. Zhou

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Abstract

The fusion excitation function for 64Ni + 64Ni down to a cross section level of 10 nb and have observed a strong fusion hindrance at extreme sub-barrier energies. The onset of the sub-barrier fusion hindrance in 64Ni + 64Ni was found to occur 8.4 MeV lower in center-of-mass energy, whereas a 2 MeV higher energy was expected on the basis of systematics. The effect was found to appear to be associated with the nuclear structure of the interacting nuclei. A strong dependence of the energy where the hindrance was also found to occur on the stiffness of the interacting nuclei.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012701
Pages (from-to)012701-1-012701-4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume93
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jul 2004

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