COLLECTIVE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY ION NUCLEAR REACTIONS

Abstract

It is shown that the nuclear charge polarisation during heavy ion nuclear reactions enhances the secondary maximum of the collective energy surface and produces a secondary minimum in the deformation energy near R ~ Rmin + 2fm. The potential energy and mass formulas are given as a function of A and Z. It has been shown that charge polarisation without shape deformation and indeed of the prolate type does not produce any secondary minimum. It is also seen that the relativity effect consists in shifting the secondary minimum towards higher rest excentricities. For deformation of the oblate type the collective potential has a similar form like that in the spherical case. Entry and exit channel collective potentials are also given for the case of strong nucléon transfer. The mass for the two-body interacting system has been calculated and for large distances it tends to the corresponding reduced mass. The present theory is based on a particular form of the single particle potential following from the scalar π-meson classical field theory.