Mass parameters for relative and neck collective motions in heavy ion fusion reactions

TL;DR

This study investigates the mass parameters for relative and neck motions in symmetric heavy ion fusion reactions using a microscopic transport model, revealing their dependence on system properties and reaction dynamics.

Contribution

It introduces a microscopic approach to determine mass parameters for nuclear motions, highlighting differences from hydrodynamic and linear response models.

Findings

Mass parameter for relative motion aligns with reduced mass at separation

Mass parameter for neck motion varies with neck width and system properties

Mass parameters differ across models and depend on nuclear incompressibility

Abstract

Mass parameters for the relative and neck motions in fusion reactions of symmetric systems $^{90}$Zr+$^{90}$Zr, $^{110}$Pd+$^{110}$Pd, and $^{138}$Ba+$^{138}$Ba are studied by means of a microscopic transport model. The shape of the nuclear system is determined by an equi-density surface obtained from the density distribution of the system. The relative and neck motions are then studied and the mass parameters for these two motions are deduced. The mass parameter for the relative motion is around the reduced mass when the reaction partners are at the separated configuration and increases with decrease of the distance between two reaction partners after the touching configuration. The mass parameter for the neck motion first decreases slightly up to the touching configuration and then increases with the neck width, and its magnitude is from less than tenth to several times more than the total mass of the system. The mass parameters obtained from the microscopic transport model are larger than the ones obtained from the hydrodynamic model and smaller than those obtained from the linear response function theory. The mass parameters for both motions depend on the reaction systems, but the one for the relative motion depends on the incompressibility of the EoS more obviously than that for neck motion.