Hinde, D.J., Dasgupta, M., Fulton, B.R., Morton, C.R., Wooliscroft, R.J., Berriman, A.C. and Hagino, K. (2002) Fusion Suppression and Sub-Barrier Breakup of Weakly Bound Nuclei. Physical Review Letters, 89 (27). pp. 272701-1. ISSN 1079-7114Full text not available from this repository.
The mechanism for the large suppression of complete fusion in the 9Be+208Pb reaction has been investigated through measurement of sub-barrier breakup of 9Be. Excluding breakup through the 8Be ground state, whose lifetime is too long, a prompt breakup component remains, having sufficient probability to explain the observed suppression of complete fusion. This appears to be associated with interactions at the nuclear surface. The fusion suppression is predicted to be almost proportional to the charge of the target nucleus, making it most significant in reactions with heavy nuclei.
|Institution:||The University of York|
|Academic Units:||The University of York > Physics (York)|
|Depositing User:||York RAE Import|
|Date Deposited:||23 Feb 2009 09:40|
|Last Modified:||23 Feb 2009 09:40|
|Publisher:||The American Physical Society.|