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Systematic study of Coulomb barrier heights with the double-folding nucleus-nucleus interaction

27 Nov 2025, 16:15
15m
Contributed Talk Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics Session 12

Speakers

Muhluri Gerald MalulekeProf. Bahati Mukeru (`Supervisor) Dr Joshua Majekodunmi (Co-author)

Description

A systematic system of Coulomb barriers is investigated where nucleus-nucleus interactions are calculated within double-folding formalisms consisting of various nucleon interactions. It is shown that for nuclear reactions involving two light nucleons or a light and a heavy nucleus, even with purely simple attractive nucleons, their calculated Coulomb barriers fit experimental ones(within error margins),similar to ones for effective nucleon-nucleon interactions where double-folding potentials are involved.However, as the masses of both interacting nuclei increase, the simple nucleon-nucleon interaction widely deviates from the experimental values. It follows that the density of the interacting particles has a significant effect on the interacting nucleons of both particles. This effect is not clearly revealed with hard-core nucleon-nucleon effective interactions being considered in the construction of double-folding potentials.

Primary author

Muhluri Gerald Maluleke

Co-author

Prof. Bahati Mukeru (`Supervisor)

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