Fusion and breakup of weakly bound nuclei
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the literature on heavy-ion fusion at low energies is presented, with special emphasis given to the fusion of loosely bound stable and unstable projectiles, and the experimental challenges encountered in the measurement of the fusion cross section of these systems are pointed out.
About: This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 2006-02-01. It has received 415 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nuclear fusion & Halo nucleus.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors 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 bound stable and unstable nuclei.
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TL;DR: In this article, the effect of coupling to direct reaction channels on elastic scattering and fusion is investigated, with the focus on halo nuclei, for which such effects are expected to be most important.
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TL;DR: A survey of elastic scattering of exotic nuclei from 6He to 17F can be found in this article, where the authors present a set of definitions that allow different analyses to be put into a common language and a calculational approach that yields consistent results across different beams and targets so that conclusions concerning the influence of virtual and real breakup as well as transfer couplings on the elastic scattering may be drawn.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a dimensionless universal function is introduced to allow the separation and disentanglement of the static and dynamic aspects of the breakup coupling effects connected with the excess nucleons.
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TL;DR: In this article, a dimensionless function is constructed from experimental cross sections and results of coupled-channel calculations, which is applied to collisions of stable and unstable weakly bound isotopes.
Abstract: A new technique to analyze fusion data is developed. From experimental cross sections and results of coupled-channel calculations a dimensionless function is constructed. In collisions of strongly bound nuclei this quantity is very close to a universal function of a variable related to the collision energy, whereas for weakly bound projectiles the effects of breakup coupling are measured by the deviations with respect to this universal function. This technique is applied to collisions of stable and unstable weakly bound isotopes.
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