Search for determining the role of various physical properties of the fusion reactions in the proximity formalism

TL;DR

This paper investigates how physical properties like temperature, surface tension, and nuclear matter density influence fusion barriers and cross sections, enhancing the proximity formalism's predictive accuracy for various nuclear fusion reactions.

Contribution

It systematically analyzes the effects of physical properties on the proximity formalism, highlighting the significance of density dependence in improving fusion reaction predictions.

Findings

Inclusion of physical effects improves model-data agreement.

Density dependence has the most significant impact.

Enhanced accuracy across a range of fusion reactions.

Abstract

This work is focused on the analysis of the corrective effects of the temperature, surface tension, and nuclear matter density on the fusion barriers and also fusion cross sections caused by the original version of the proximity formalism (Prox.77 model) for 62 fusion reactions. A systematic comparison between the theoretical and empirical data of the height and position of the barrier as well as the fusion cross sections reveals that the agreement of these data improves by imposing each of the mentioned physical effects on the Prox.77 model for our selected mass range. Moreover, it is shown that the density-dependence effects have the most important role in improving the theoretical results of the proximity potential.