Role of the Skyrme tensor force in heavy-ion fusion

Simenel, C., Stevenson, P. D., Suckling, E. B., Fracasso, S., Simmons, E. D., Umar, A. S., Gomes, P. R. S., Hinde, D. J., Madhavan, N., Navin, A. and Rehm, K. E. (2015) Role of the Skyrme tensor force in heavy-ion fusion. EPJ Web of Conferences, 86. 00058. ISSN 2100-014X doi: 10.1051/epjconf/20158600058

Abstract/Summary

We make use of the Skyrme effective nuclear interaction within the time-dependent Hartree-Fock framework to assess the effect of inclusion of the tensor terms of the Skyrme interaction on the fusion window of the 16O–16O reaction. We find that the lower fusion threshold, around the barrier, is quite insensitive to these details of the force, but the higher threshold, above which the nuclei pass through each other, changes by several MeV between different tensor parametrisations. The results suggest that eventually fusion properties may become part of the evaluation or fitting process for effective nuclear interactions.