Heavy Ions Physics Department

(Head – Dr. Sci., Professor A. Т. Rudchyk)

Main directions of scientific activity: 

• Experimental research of nuclear reactions on the light and heavy beams and light targets.
• Mechanisms of nuclear reactions and nuclear core structure.
• Nucleus-nucleus interaction and its optical potential.
• Exotic nuclei and reactions with exotic products.
• Threshold and anomalous effects in scattering of nuclei.
• Nuclear physics of few nucleon systems.

The most important scientific results: 

• A considerable number of new experimental data for nuclear scattering and reactions of one- and multinucleon transfer at interaction of light (deuterons, ³He, α-particles) and heavy (^10,11В, ¹²С, ¹⁴N, ¹⁸O) ions with light nuclei is obtained.
• Energy dependences of optical model parameters for stable and unstable nuclei were obtained using both as own as known from scientific literature experimental data of scattering and transfer reactions.
• Important role of reorientation process at large angle scattering of nuclei with spin larger than ½ was found.
• Important role of two-steps nucleons and light clusters transfers at charge exchange and multinucleon transfer reactions depending on nuclear structure were deduced.