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• TITLE: The Harmonic Approximation in Heavy-Ion Reaction Study

  AUTHORS: Godwin Joseph Ibeh, Elijah Dika Mshelia

  KEYWORDS: Harmonic Approximation, Energy Dissipation, Coupled Oscillators, Heavy-Ions, Dinuclear System, Cluster Model

  JOURNAL NAME: Applied Mathematics, Vol.6 No.11, October 16, 2015

  ABSTRACT: The derivation of the harmonic approximation of the Hamiltonian of a model of coupled three-dimensional harmonic oscillator is presented. It is shown how the splitting of the total Hamiltonian into the intrinsic and collective Hamiltonians leads to the description of the mechanism for energy dissipation in physical systems.