Abstract
The fusion barrier distributions for + systems were extracted from quasielastic excitation function measurements at backward angles. The experimental barrier distributions were then compared with coupled-channel (CC) calculations. The fusion barrier distribution for the + reaction was well reproduced by the CC calculations with the inclusion of projectile and target inelastic couplings and only one possible positive -value 2-transfer channel coupling using the ccfull code. However, CC calculations with similar coupling schemes for inelastic excitation of target and projectile with the 4-transfer channel corresponding to the highest positive value failed to reproduce the barrier distribution for the + reaction, because it has many positive -value multi-neutron transfer channels. A better agreement between the experimental fusion barrier distribution for the + system and the prediction of semiempirical CC calculations based on the Zagrebaev framework [V. I. Zagrebaev, Phys. Rev. C 67, 061601(R) (2003)] was obtained only after considering positive -value multi-neutron transfer couplings. The sensitivity of the fusion barrier distribution to the hexadecapole deformation parameter of the projectile was also discussed.
- Received 23 November 2013
- Revised 18 March 2014
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.89.044607
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