U.S.-Mexico Cooperative Research: Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Nucleon Transfer Reactions in the Vicinity of Fermi Energy

该奖项将支持威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的Akif Baha Balantekin教授和劳伦斯伯克利实验室的W.A.Friedman教授和K.W.McVoy教授与墨西哥墨西哥城Fisica de la University Autonoma de墨西哥(IFUNAM)的E.Chavez、A.Dacal和M.E.Ortiz教授进行合作研究。研究人员计划对涉及中能重离子周边碰撞产生的初级碎片的详细测量进行理论分析和解释。对这些结果的拟议理论分析和解释将在两个层面上进行，这两个层面都涉及理论物理学家和实验物理学家的合作。第一个层次涉及通过综合考虑简单反应模型、蒙特卡罗计算和检测系统的性质来确定初级反应产物的特征。第二个层次包括用重离子转移和非弹性散射理论解释所推导的核子拾取和剥离截面。这项拟议的工作有可能增加我们对中能重离子反应机制的理解。墨西哥实验学家和美国理论物理学家之间的合作延续了过去成功的工作，双方都为当前非常感兴趣的研究项目带来了互补的技能。

This award will support Professor Akif Baha Balantekin of the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Professors W. A. Friedman and K. W. McVoy of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in collaborative research with Professors E. Chavez, A. Dacal and M. E. Ortiz of the Instituto de Fisica de la Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (IFUNAM) in Mexico City, Mexico. The investigators plan to undertake the theoretical analysis and interpretation of detailed measurements involving primary fragments produced in peripheral collisions of heavy ions at intermediate energies. The proposed theoretical analysis and interpretation of these results is to occur at two levels, both of which involve the collaboration of theoretical and experimental physicists. The first level is concerned with the determination of the characteristics of the primary reaction products through a combined consideration of simple reaction models, Monte Carlo calculations, and properties of the detection system. The second level consists of interpreting the deduced cross sections for nucleon pickup and stripping in terms of the theories of heavy ion transfer and inelastic scattering. The proposed work has the potential to increase our understanding of heavy-ion reaction mechanisms at intermediate energies. The collaboration between Mexican experimentalists and U.S. theoretical physicists continues past successful work, each side bringing complementary skills to a research project of much current interest.