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Background: Couplings with various reaction channels are known to enhance sub-barrier fusion cross sections by several orders in magnitude. However, a few open questions still remain. For example, the influence of higher order static deformations on sub-barrier fusion cross sections is yet to be comprehensively understood. Purpose: We study the role of hexadecapole nuclear deformation effect on sub-barrier fusion cross sections. Also, this work aims to extract hexadecapole deformation (beta(4)) in nuclei in the lanthanide region. Method: The evaporation residue (ER) excitation functions for O-16 + Yb-174,Yb-176 were measured at laboratory beam energies (E-lab) in the range of 64.6-103.6 MeV. Measurements were carried out by employing the recoil mass spectrometer Heavy Ion Reaction Analyzer (HIRA) at IUAC, New Delhi. Fusion barrier distributions (BDs) were extracted from data. Results from the experiment were subjected to coupled-channels analysis, in which beta(4) was varied as a free parameter. Results: Experimental fusion cross sections at energies below the barrier expectedly showed strong enhancement compared to the predictions from the one-dimensional barrier penetration model. Data were satisfactorily reproduced after inclusion of negative beta(4) for both the targets in the coupled-channels calculation. Conclusions: The significant role of hexadecapole deformation was observed in the sub-barrier fusion of O-16 + Yb-174,Yb-176. The proposed value of beta(4) reproduced the measured fusion excitation function reasonably well. The BDs from these data were also extracted but no definitive conclusions could be drawn from them.
- 出版日期2016-5-25
- 单位中国原子能科学研究院
