Erratum: Temperature dependence of nuclear fission time in heavy-ion fusion-fission reactions [Phys. Rev. C 96 , 054611 (2017)]

Reply to ‘Comment on “Temperature dependence of nuclear fission time in heavy-ion fusion-fission reactions” '

“…In our article it was stated that this equation has not been used before to analyse the breakdown of the Kramers' formula for the dependence of fission time on nuclear temperature (Ref. [6], which contains a similar formula, was mentioned earlier in our article [2] in the context of the Langevin dynamics and inertia and friction parameters). GC point out that this equation has been used, in a slightly different form, also in Ref.…”

“…In the preceding comment, Gontchar and Chusnyakova (GC) [1] point out that our previous contribution Ref. [2] contains misleading statements. Although there were indeed some wording issues and some typos in our article (which have been corrected in [3]), our article is technically valid and presents a fully analytical amendment of Kramers' formula for nuclear fission which solves the long-standing problem of applicability of Kramers' approach, in closed form expressions, to nuclear fission at high excitation energies.…”

“…(3) in our article Ref. [2]. Here, η is the nuclear friction, T is the nuclear temperature, q 0 is the deformation coordinate relative to the undeformed compound nucleus (minimum of the well), q s is the saddle point at the fission barrier along the deformation coordinate, and U is the fission energy landscape.…”

“…The MFP approach is a standard tool in stochastic physics, and its application to nuclear fission goes back to the 1980's [8]. In all references that pre-date ERGZ [2], the MFP is used in integral form, which requires numerical evaluation of integrals in Eq. (1) above.…”

“…The main contribution of Ref. [2] is the derivation of a closed-form fully analytical version of the MFP formula (Eq. (6) in Ref.…”