Systematic study of the isotopic dependence of fusion dynamics for neutron- and proton-rich nuclei using a proximity formalism

Abstract

The behaviors of barrier characteristics and fusion cross sections are analyzed by changing neutron over wide range of colliding systems. For this purpose, we have extended our previous study (Eur. Phys. J. A \textbf{48}, 21 (2012), it is devoted to the colliding systems with neutron-rich nuclei) to 125 isotopic systems with condition of $0.5\leq N/Z \leq 1.6$ for their compound nuclei. The AW 95, Bass 80, Denisov DP and Prox. 2010 potentials are used to calculate the nuclear part of interacting potential. The obtained results show that the trend of barrier heights $V_B$ and positions $R_B$ as well as nuclear $V_N$ and Coulomb $V_C$ potentials (at $R=R_B$) as a function of ($N/Z-1$) quantity are non-linear (second-order) whereas the fusion cross sections follow a linear-dependence.