Transfer reactions in inverse kinematics: An experimental approach for fission investigations
Journal article, 2014
Inelastic and multinucleon transfer reactions between a U-238 beam, accelerated at 6.14 MeV/u, and a C-12 target were used for the production of neutron-rich, fissioning systems from U to Cm. A Si telescope, devoted to the detection of the targetlike nuclei, provided a characterization of the fissioning systems in atomic and mass numbers, as well as in excitation energy. Cross sections and angular and excitation-energy distributions were measured for the inelastic and transfer channels. Possible excitations of the targetlike nuclei were experimentally investigated for the first time, by means of gamma-ray measurements. The decays from the first excited states of 12C, B-11, and Be-10 were observed with probabilities of 0.12-0.14, while no evidence for the population of higher-lying states was found. Moreover, the fission probabilities of U-238, Np-239 and Pu-240,Pu-241,Pu-242 and Cm-244 were determined as a function of the excitation energy.
Author
C. Rodriguez-Tajes
F. Farget
X. Derkx
M. Caamano
O. Delaune
K. H. Schmidt
E. Clement
A. Dijon
Andreas Martin Heinz
Chalmers, Fundamental Physics
T. Roger
L. Audouin
J. Benlliure
E. Casarejos
D. Cortina
D. Dore
B. Fernandez-Dominguez
B. Jacquot
B. Jurado
A. Navin
C. Paradela
D. Ramos
P. Romain
M. D. Salsac
C. Schmitt
Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics
24699985 (ISSN) 24699993 (eISSN)
Vol. 89 2 024614Subject Categories
Subatomic Physics
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevC.89.024614