Eur. Phys. J. A 15, 351-356 (2002)
DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2002-10034-8

Transfer reactions and sub-barrier fusion in

G. Montagnoli¹, S. Beghini¹, F. Scarlassara¹, A.M. Stefanini², L. Corradi², C.J. Lin², G. Pollarolo³ and Aage Winther<sup>4

1</sup>  Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Padova, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, via Marzolo 8, I-35131, Padova, Italy
²  Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro, Padova, Italy
³  Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Universitá di Torino, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, I-10125 Torino, Italy
⁴  The Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

montagnoli@pd.infn.it

(Received: 2 May 2002 / Revised version: 4 June 2002 / Published online: 26 November 2002)

Abstract
The two systems ⁴⁰Ca + ^90,96Zr have been studied by measuring nucleon transfer reactions at two energies near the Coulomb barrier, thus complementing the available sub-barrier fusion cross-sections. Angular distributions for various transfer channels have been determined. Significantly larger neutron transfer cross-sections are found for the target ⁹⁶Zr that exhibits the larger enhancement in the sub-barrier fusion cross-sections. All data have been analyzed with a new model for heavy-ion collisions that calculates simultaneously transfer cross-sections, fusion excitation functions and barrier distributions. The model gives a good account of both transfer and fusion data.

PACS
25.70.Hi - Transfer reactions.
25.70.Jj - Fusion and fusion-fission reactions.
24.10.-i - Nuclear-reaction models and methods.

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