Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 202701 (2009) [4 pages]Signature of Smooth Transition from Sudden to Adiabatic States in Heavy-Ion Fusion Reactions at Deep Sub-Barrier EnergiesReceived 11 September 2009; published 11 November 2009 We propose a novel extension of the standard coupled-channels framework for heavy-ion reactions in order to analyze fusion reactions at deep-sub-barrier incident energies. This extension simulates a smooth transition between the two-body and the adiabatic one-body states. To this end, we damp gradually the off-diagonal part of the coupling potential, for which the position of the onset of the damping varies for each eigenchannel. We show that this model accounts well for the steep falloff of the fusion cross sections for the 16O+208Pb, 64Ni+64Ni, and 58Ni+58Ni reactions. © 2009 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.202701
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.202701
PACS:
25.60.Pj, 24.10.Eq, 25.70.Jj
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