The heavy-ion spin-orbit interaction

Journal article

An expression for the induced spin-orbit potential in a heavy-ion collision is derived by making an adiabatic approximation to the effective interaction in second-order perturbation theory. An explicit form for the induced spin-orbit interaction for the case of a projectile of arbitrary ground state spin S is given and is shown to be equivalent to the result obtained using the methods of geometrical magnetism. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V.

Authors: Brink, D; Sukumar, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: NUCLEAR PHYSICS A
• Volume: 650
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 418-426
• Publication date: 1999-04-26
• DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9474(99)00119-0
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• Language: English
• Keywords: heavy ion; geometric magnetism; spin-orbit