Ch. Dasso et al., ROLE OF THE GAMMA-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM IN SUBBARRIER FUSION PHENOMENA AND EFFECTIVE BARRIER DISTRIBUTIONS, Physical review. C. Nuclear physics, 55(4), 1997, pp. 2112-2114
We investigate sub-barrier fusion phenomena in the presence of triaxia
l static deformations and under conditions of gamma instability. It is
found that the distributions of effective barriers can reflect in a d
istinct way a general quadrupole profile specified in terms of both be
ta(2) and gamma. Fusion cross sections as a function of energy are, on
the other hand, rather insensitive to the gamma degree of freedom.