Eur. Phys. J. A (2012) 48: 133
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2012-12133-3

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Evolution from dinucleus to mononucleus and its implication in the synthesis of superheavy nuclei

¹ School of Science, Minzu University of China, 100081, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
² China Institute of Atomic Energy, 102413, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

^* e-mail: lyj85@126.com

Received: 25 August 2012
Accepted: 11 September 2012
Published online: 15 October 2012

Abstract

The evolution of neck for the asymmetric system ⁵⁸Fe + ²⁴⁴Pu at E _c.m. = 260 MeV has been studied with the coupled Langevin equations in two-dimensional collective space and the results compared to those obtained with a one-dimensional approach under the frozen assumption. It is found that the coupling between the radial and neck degrees of freedom reduces the drift velocity of neck growth and delays the transition from dinucleus to mononucleus. Besides, the coupling brings the system into a somehow elongated shape when the injection into the asymmetric fission valley takes place, hence, the fusion probability and the relevant evaporation residue (ER) cross-sections decrease. For the system ⁵⁸Fe + ²⁴⁴Pu , the ER cross-sections decrease by about 30% as compared to those obtained under the frozen approximation. Therefore, we may arrive at the conclusion that for the heavy asymmetric systems such as ⁵⁸Fe + ²⁴⁴Pu the coupling between different degrees of freedom has important effects on the evolution from dinucleus to mononucleus and the frozen approximation is basically not satisfied as far as the neck dynamics is concerned. However, as compared to the symmetric reactions, the influence of the neck dynamics on the fusion hindrance factor of heavy systems is much weaker for the asymmetric reactions.