Structure effects and dynamics in fusion reactions of light weakly bound nuclei

The study of fusion in collision around the Coulomb barrier, induced by radioactive or stable weakly bound nuclei, has been the subject of many experiments in the last years. From a semiclassical point of view, direct processes like break-up or transfer may be favoured by the low binding energies and one might also expect suppressed fusion cross section due to the competition with the break-up. However, according to the Coupled Channel calculations (CC), it is well known that the presence of strong open reaction channels can be responsible for a fusion cross-section enhancement with respect to the single barrier penetration calculations and the break-up should be included in such calculations. In order to further investigate on this topic, the ⁶Li+⁶⁴Zn collision has been studied at several energies around the Coulomb barrier, to extract the total fusion and the total reaction cross sections and to study the energy dependence of the optical model potential.