Abstract

We calculate the effect of the neck degree of freedom on subbarrier fusion reaction cross sections. The potential energy and mass tensor are calculated on the basis of a two-dimensional representation of the liquid drop model. The WKB and Hill-Wheeler approximations are used to calculate the tunneling amplitudes for motion along the direction of the neck size degree of freedom. The resulting cross section for collisions between two identical Ni isotopes show a marked enhancement at low energies compared with the standard one-dimensional radial penetration calculations.

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