Kinetic energy dissipation and fluctuations in strongly-damped heavy-ion collisions within the stochastic mean-field approach

TL;DR

This paper extends the stochastic mean-field approach to study kinetic energy dissipation and fluctuations in strongly-damped heavy-ion collisions, providing a microscopic description of TKE distribution with improved accuracy for large energy losses.

Contribution

It introduces a formalism for quantal transport in heavy-ion collisions focusing on kinetic energy and angular momentum transfer, extending previous methods.

Findings

Good agreement with experimental TKE distribution at high energy loss

Underestimates TKE for small energy losses, indicating need for further refinement

Microscopic calculation of radial diffusion coefficient from TDHF orbitals

Abstract

Background: Microscopic mean-field approaches have been successful in describing the most probable reaction outcomes in low-energy heavy-ion reactions. However, those approaches are known to severely underestimate dispersions of observables around the average values that has limited their applicability. Recently it has been shown that a quantal transport approach based on the stochastic mean-field (SMF) theory significantly improves the description, while its application has been limited so far to fragment mass and charge dispersions. Purpose: In this work, we extend the quantal transport approach based on the SMF theory for relative kinetic energy dissipation and angular momentum transfer in low-energy heavy-ion reactions. Results: As the first application of the proposed formalism, we consider the radial linear momentum dispersion, neglecting the coupling between radial and angular momenta. We analyze the total kinetic energy (TKE) distribution of binary reaction products in the $^{136}$Xe+$^{208}$Pb reaction at $E_\mathrm{c.m.}=526$ MeV and compare with experimental data. From time evolution of single-particle orbitals in TDHF, the radial diffusion coefficient is computed on a microscopic basis, while a phenomenological treatment is introduced for the radial friction coefficient. By solving the quantal diffusion equation for the radial linear momentum, the dispersion of the radial linear momentum is obtained, from which one can construct the TKE distribution. We find that the calculations provide a good description of the TKE distribution for large values of energy losses, TKEL $\gtrsim$ 150 MeV. However, the calculations underestimate the TKE distribution for smaller energy losses. Further studies are needed to improve the technical details of calculations. (Shortened due to the word limit)