Recent developments in heavy-ion fusion reactions

BB Back, H Esbensen, CL Jiang, KE Rehm - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2014 - APS
In this review the main advances in heavy-ion fusion research that have taken place over the
last decade are addressed. During this period, experimental studies have been extended to …

Recent developments in fusion and direct reactions with weakly bound nuclei

LF Canto, PRS Gomes, R Donangelo, J Lubian… - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
In this Report we give a balanced account of the experimental and theoretical advances
acquired over the last decade in the field of near-barrier fusion reactions induced by weakly …

Fusion and breakup of weakly bound nuclei

LF Canto, PRS Gomes, R Donangelo, MS Hussein - Physics reports, 2006 - Elsevier
In this review the phenomenon of heavy-ion fusion at low energies is discussed in detail,
with special emphasis given to the fusion of loosely bound stable and unstable projectiles …

Subbarrier fusion reactions and many-particle quantum tunneling

K Hagino, N Takigawa - Progress of theoretical physics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Low-energy heavy-ion fusion reactions are governed by quantum tunneling through the
Coulomb barrier formed by the strong cancellation of the repulsive Coulomb force with the …

Heavy-ion fusion reactions at extreme sub-barrier energies

CL Jiang, BB Back, KE Rehm, K Hagino… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
The study of fusion reactions at extreme sub-barrier energies has seen an increased interest
in recent years, although difficult to measure due to their very small cross sections. Such …

Coupled-channels calculations for nuclear reactions: From exotic nuclei to superheavy elements

K Hagino, K Ogata, AM Moro - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Atomic nuclei are composite systems, and they may be dynamically excited during nuclear
reactions. Such excitations are not only relevant to inelastic scattering but they also affect …

Advances in the direct study of carbon burning in massive stars

G Fruet, S Courtin, M Heine, DG Jenkins, P Adsley… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
The C 12+ C 12 fusion reaction plays a critical role in the evolution of massive stars and also
strongly impacts various explosive astrophysical scenarios. The presence of resonances in …

Systematic failure of the Woods-Saxon nuclear potential to describe both fusion and elastic scattering: Possible need for a new dynamical approach to fusion

JO Newton, RD Butt, M Dasgupta, DJ Hinde… - Physical Review C …, 2004 - APS
A large number of precision fusion excitation functions, at energies above the average
fusion barriers, have been fitted using the Woods-Saxon form for the nuclear potential in a …

Reaction rate for carbon burning in massive stars

CL Jiang, D Santiago-Gonzalez, S Almaraz-Calderon… - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
Carbon burning is a critical phase for nucleosynthesis in massive stars. The conditions for
igniting this burning stage, and the subsequent isotope composition of the resulting ashes …

Hindrance of heavy-ion fusion due to nuclear incompressibility

Ş Mişicu, H Esbensen - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
We propose a new mechanism to explain the unexpected steep falloff of fusion cross
sections at energies far below the Coulomb barrier. The saturation properties of nuclear …