Real and imaginary parts of the nucleus-nucleus interaction using a microscopic approach

Abstract

The energy density formalism is extended into the complex domain to calculate both the real and imaginary parts of the ion-ion potential. Recent nucleon-nucleus potentials calculated by Jeukenne, Lejeune and Mahaux using Reid's hard core nucleon-nucleon interaction are employed to generate the complex potential energy densities required in the calculation. The computed potentials are in good agreement with the phenomenological values.