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NUCLEAR COLLISIONS -
RELATION TO NUCLEAR STRUCTURE

We would like to perform a theoretical investigation on the following subjects:

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Heavy ion collisions at subbarrier and near barrier energies;
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Hot fusion;
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Decay of the compound nucleus by light particles emission and fission.

We are going to describe the fusion and fission processes by an appropriate set of Langevin's equations. Our model is based on the assumption that the collisions of heavy ions could be described within a statistical model which takes into account the effect of energy dissipation due to the presence of the friction forces and the diffusion phenomena. The corresponding transport equation of the Fokker-Planck type was originally proposed for nuclear fission by Kramers in 1940 and in 70-es adapted for heavy ion physics.

It was shown that the Monte Carlo calculations combined with the local moment expansion method transforms the Fokker-Planck equations into the set of the equations of motion with the random force which is equivalent to the set of coupled Langevin equations. The Langevin equation has already been used by several authors to describe the heavy ions collisions and fission. This idea was very fruitful and allows us to describe many phenomena occurring in heavy ions physics due to statistical fluctuation.



 
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2000-04-17