NUCLEON MOLECULAR-ORBITALS IN HEAVY-ION REACTIONS

In nucleus-nucleus collisions there exists a large probability for the formation of the molecular orbitals of active nucleons in the scatter ing systems. In nuclear reactions the exact treatment of the relative motion and allowance for recoil effects due to the mass transfer are c learly more important for nucleon molecular orbitals than for electron molecular orbitals. In order to treat this problem, we discuss first our formalism for the dynamical treatment of molecular orbitals by usi ng the basis functions employed in the coupled-reaction-channel (CRC) method. Then the rotating-molecular-orbital (RMO) representation for a ctive nucleons is applied for the systems C-12 + C-13 and S-36 + Cl-37 . We put special emphasis on a specific molecular orbital state, i.e., a covalent molecule which appears as a rotating stable state (k=1/2) with good adiabaticity.