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 024614

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.89.024614

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