Experimental study of nuclear fission along the thorium isotopic chain: From asymmetric to symmetric fission
Journal article, 2019

The inverse kinematics technique, applied to radioactive beams and combined to the Coulomb excitation method, is a powerful tool to study low-energy fission. A novel experimental setup was developed within the R3B/SOFIA (Reactions with Relativistic Radioactive Beams/Studies On FIssion with Aladin) collaboration to identify in mass and atomic numbers both fission fragments in coincidence. These new data provide elemental, isobaric, and isotonic yields for the fission along the thorium isotopic chain. Results are also compared to previous measurements using either the same reaction mechanism or thermal-neutron induced fission. This latter comparison permits to probe the influence of the excitation energy in the fission process.

Author

A. Chatillon

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

J. Taieb

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

H. Alvarez-Pol

Universidade de Santiagode Compostela

L. Audouin

University of Paris-Sud

Y. Ayyad

Universidade de Santiagode Compostela

Michigan State University

G. Belier

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

J. Benlliure

Universidade de Santiagode Compostela

G. Boutoux

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

M. Caamano

Universidade de Santiagode Compostela

E. Casarejos

University of Vigo

D. Cortina-Gil

Universidade de Santiagode Compostela

A. Ebran

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

F. Farget

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

B. Fernandez-Dominguez

Universidade de Santiagode Compostela

T. Gorbinet

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

L. Grente

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

Andreas Martin Heinz

Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic and Plasma Physics

Håkan T Johansson

Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic and Plasma Physics

B. Jurado

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

A. Kelic-Heil

Helmholtz

N. Kurz

Helmholtz

B. Laurent

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

J-F Martin

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

C. Nociforo

Helmholtz

C. Paradela

Universidade de Santiagode Compostela

Inst Reference Mat & Measurements

E. Pellereau

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

S. Pietri

Helmholtz

A. Prochazka

Helmholtz

J. L. Rodriguez-Sanchez

Universidade de Santiagode Compostela

Helmholtz

H. Simon

Helmholtz

L. Tassan-Got

University of Paris-Sud

J. Vargas

Universidade de Santiagode Compostela

Universidad Santo Tomás

B. Voss

Helmholtz

H. Weick

Helmholtz

Physical Review C

24699985 (ISSN) 24699993 (eISSN)

Vol. 99 5 054628

Subject Categories

Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation

Subatomic Physics

Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.99.054628

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