# Effect of nuclear matter incompressibility on the 16O+208Pb system

## TL;DR

This paper investigates how nuclear matter incompressibility affects the fusion dynamics of the 16O+208Pb system, revealing that nuclear matter becomes more incompressible at higher energies during fusion.

## Contribution

It introduces a method to analyze the impact of nuclear matter incompressibility on fusion reactions using Skyrme forces across a range of K values.

## Key findings

- Nuclear matter incompressibility varies with bombarding energy.
- Higher energies lead to increased nuclear matter incompressibility.
- The internuclear potential depends on the nuclear matter properties.

## Abstract

To analyze the property of nuclear matter in the 16O+208Pb collision system, the internuclear potential of the fusion reaction is calculated by using the Skyrme forces associated with an extensive nuclear matter incompressibility K range in the semiclassical energy density formalism. Comparison of the experimental fusion cross sections and those obtained by using potentials derived from different forces with various K values shows that the incompressibility of nuclear matter changes during the fusion process at different bombarding energies. The results indicate that, as the energy increases, the nuclear matter becomes more incompressible.