Effect of Diffuseness Parameter on the Fusion Cross-Section of Closed-Shell Nuclei

Section: Research Paper
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
53-63

Abstract

Heavy-ion fusion reactions are important and essential to express the dynamical properties of colliding nuclei, and to address the tunneling effect in quantum mechanics. In the fusion process, the ion-ion potential plays an important role in approaching the measured cross section with the experimental value by influencing the tunneling probability of interacting nuclei. In this work, the fusion cross-sections of closed-shell heavy-ion fusion systems have been calculated and analyzed in the framework of coupled channel theory, using the code CCFULL, by fixing the potential depth value = 102.9 MeV and the fusion radius = 1.096 , while, the diffuseness parameter of Wood--Saxon potential is varied from 0.6 to 1.1 to fitting the fusion cross-section data at energies near and below the Coulomb barrier. It was observed that our approach is able to estimating the experimentally observed cross-sections of closed-shell colliding nuclei.

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M. Othman, B., علی, M. Hussein, A., & H. Taqi, A. (2025). Effect of Diffuseness Parameter on the Fusion Cross-Section of Closed-Shell Nuclei. Rafidain Journal of Science, 32(2), 53–63. https://doi.org/10.33899/rjs.2023.178575