Proximity Formalism Research Articles

Microscopic calculation of the coupling between relative motion and quadrupole deformation in heavy-ion collisions

Using a microscopic formalism and taking fully nto account the Pauli principle, we compute the interaction potential between two 40Ca nuclei as a function of their interdistance and their deformation. We attempt an analysis of our results within the proximity formalism and we point out some difficulties. We also extract the coupling parameter between the radial motion of the ions and the excitations of their giant quadrupole modes.