https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00312-8
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Semi-classical approaches to heavy-ion reactions: fusion, rainbow, and glory
1
Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 68528, Rio de Janeiro, CP, Brazil
2
Department of Physics, Kyoto Unviersity, 606-8502, Kyoto, Japan
3
National Institute of Technology, Akita College, 011-8511, Akita, Japan
b
hagino.kouichi.5m@kyoto-u.ac.jp
Received:
2
October
2020
Accepted:
17
November
2020
Published online:
7
January
2021
A semi-classical approximation has been a powerful tool in understanding the dynamics of low-energy heavy-ion reactions. Here we discuss two topics in this regard, for which Mahir Hussein was a world leading pioneer. The first topic is heavy-ion fusion reactions of neutron-rich nuclei, in which the breakup process of the projectile nucleus plays a crucial role. The second is rainbow and glory scattering, for which characteristic oscillatory patterns in differential cross sections can be well understood in terms of intereferences among several semi-classical trajectories.
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