A simple analytical expression is derived for the total nuclear reaction cross section in heavy-ion heavy-ion collisions at high energies based on the semiclassical optical model. Tapered nuclear density distributions are used in conjunction with nucleon-nucleon collision cross sections.

NUCLEAR REACTIONS Nucleus-nucleus, high-energy; semiclassical calculation of total reaction cross sections, tapered density distributions.

• Received 18 November 1974

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.11.1203