Modification of the form of potential in an excited nucleus and its effect on the barrier transmission coefficient

✍ Scribed by J. Németh

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1960
• Weight: 391 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0029-5582
• DOI: 10.1016/s0029-5582(60)81042-5

✦ Synopsis

The transmission coefficient of the nuclear potential barrier is calculated by taking into account the fact that the density distribution of an excited nucleus differs from that of one in the ground state. As an example the potential barrier of an excited nucleus of mass number 40 is determined on the basis of the statistical model and it is found that for 15 MeV excitation energy the transmission coefficient for protons emitted with 2 MeV energy is twice as large as that for a nucleus in the ground state.