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Effects of diabaticity on fusion of heavy nuclei in the dinuclear model ...

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Chapter 2<br />

The study <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> nucleus-nucleus collisi<strong>on</strong>s at energies <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> some few MeV/u above <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>teracti<strong>on</strong><br />

barrier stimulated <strong>the</strong> development <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>the</strong>oretical c<strong>on</strong>cepts for large-amplitude collective nuclear<br />

moti<strong>on</strong> [44]. We note <strong>in</strong> particular <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>troducti<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> transport <strong>the</strong>ories like <strong>the</strong> random-<br />

matrix approach [45], <strong>the</strong> <strong>on</strong>e-body dissipati<strong>on</strong> <strong>model</strong> [46, 47] and <strong>the</strong> l<strong>in</strong>ear resp<strong>on</strong>se <strong>the</strong>ory<br />

[48]. These <strong>the</strong>ories assume (ei<strong>the</strong>r explicitly or implicitly) a statistical equilibrium with<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>in</strong>tr<strong>in</strong>sic degrees <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> freedom throughout <strong>the</strong> collisi<strong>on</strong> described by a few collective variables.<br />

Such a local equilibrium, however, is not expected to be realistic dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>itial stage <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

a nucleus-nucleus collisi<strong>on</strong>, a process which starts from <strong>the</strong> approach <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> two <strong>nuclei</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

ground states. Because <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>the</strong> l<strong>on</strong>g mean free path, <strong>the</strong> moti<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>dividual nucle<strong>on</strong>s dur<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>the</strong> approach phase is governed by <strong>the</strong>ir self-c<strong>on</strong>sistent mean potential which evolves <strong>in</strong> time.<br />

Therefore, this stage should be well described by <strong>the</strong> time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF)<br />

<strong>the</strong>ory [49]. <str<strong>on</strong>g>Effects</str<strong>on</strong>g> from residual two-body collisi<strong>on</strong>s and <strong>the</strong> corresp<strong>on</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g transiti<strong>on</strong> to local<br />

equilibrium were formulated <strong>in</strong> extensi<strong>on</strong>s <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> TDHF [50]. An alternative <strong>model</strong> was <strong>in</strong>troduced<br />

<strong>in</strong> [51] by <strong>the</strong> c<strong>on</strong>cept <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> dissipative diabatic dynamics (DDD) as a time-dependent shell-<strong>model</strong><br />

approach. This <strong>model</strong> takes <strong>in</strong>to account simultaneously <strong>the</strong> coherent and <strong>in</strong>coherent forms <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

moti<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>the</strong> nucle<strong>on</strong>s <strong>in</strong> nucleus-nucleus collisi<strong>on</strong>s. For sufficiently large collective velocities<br />

(typically <strong>the</strong> collective k<strong>in</strong>etic energy per nucle<strong>on</strong> needs to be larger than 0.03 MeV) <strong>the</strong><br />

nucle<strong>on</strong>s no l<strong>on</strong>ger adjust <strong>the</strong>ir wave functi<strong>on</strong>s adiabatically but diabatically, <strong>the</strong>reby preserv<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>the</strong> nodal structure (character) <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>the</strong> wave functi<strong>on</strong>s. Adiabatic basis states are not always<br />

useful [52]. It was realized by Landau, Stueckelberg and Zener [53] that it is advantageous at<br />

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