The fusion process in Landau-Vlasov dynamics

Central collisions in intermediate energy heavy ion reactions are studied in the framework of the Landau-Vlasov equation. The momentum relaxation and the nucleon emission into the continuum are analyzed with the excitation energy of the composite system. For light systems, the onset of an ineffectual fusion is obtained for an incident energy near the Fermi energy. For heavy systems, incomplete fusion is the dominant mechanism in the whole energy range below 80 MeV/u. (orig.)