Comment on “Effect of density and nucleon-nucleon potential on the fusion cross section within the relativistic mean field formalism”

Effect of density and nucleon-nucleon potential on the fusion cross section within the relativistic mean field formalism

“…A more detailed study with the inclusion of more nuclear shape degrees of freedom in the nuclear potential obtained within the RMF formalism is under process and will be communicated shortly. Further, the comparison of results obtained for Reid M3Y NN potential with deformed RMF densities and those presented in Comment [1] using the 2pF densities shows that there is a noticeable difference in the cross-section obtained using the two different approaches for the nuclear density distributions. All these observations infer that nuclear fusion depends upon various structural properties of both of the interacting nuclei, and systematic studies are required to explore the impact of one or another factor.…”

“…The main concern of the authors of comment [1] on our paper [2] is regarding the use of spherical densities for the considered target nuclei. First, we would like to clarify here that the spherical densities were used in [2] as a simplifying assumption, as it was the first step towards implementing a new theoretical formalism, that is, the relativistic mean field (RMF) approach for the study of nuclear fusion.…”

“…Furthermore, the authors of the Comment have also presented the calculations for 48 Ca+ 238 U reaction using the 2pF densities along with Paris and Reid versions of the effective M3Y NN potential [1]. It is worth noting here that we have used the RMF densities along with the relativistic R3Y effective NN potential in [2] to obtain the nuclear potential, and the results were compared with the Reid version of the M3Y NN potential.…”

“…It is worth noting here that we have used the RMF densities along with the relativistic R3Y effective NN potential in [2] to obtain the nuclear potential, and the results were compared with the Reid version of the M3Y NN potential. Therefore, to study the effect of deformation within the same microscopic RMF formalism, here we present the calculations performed with the deformed RMF densities and the relativistic R3Y NN potential for 48 Ca+ 238 U reaction at same center of mass energies as considered in [1]. The quadrupole (β 2 = 0.283) deformation parameter for 238 U target nucleus is obtained within the axially de-formed RMF formalism for NL3 * parameter set, and its effect is further included in the description of the nuclear densities through the radial vector.…”