Isotopic fission-fragment distributions of U-238, Np-239, Pu-240, Cm-244, and Cf-250 produced through inelastic scattering, transfer, and fusion reactions in inverse kinematics
Journal article, 2018
Transfer- and fusion-induced fission in inverse kinematics has proved to be a powerful tool to investigate nuclear fission, widening information on the fission fragments and access to unstable fissioning systems with respect to other experimental approaches. An experimental campaign is being carried out at GANIL with this technique since 2008. In these experiments, a beam of U-238, accelerated to 6.1 MeV/u, impinges on a C-12 target. Fissioning systems from U to Cf are populated through inelastic scattering, transfer, and fusion reactions, with excitation energies that range from a few MeV up to 46 MeV. The use of inverse kinematics, the SPIDER telescope, and the VAMOS spectrometer allow the characterization of the fissioning system in terms of mass, nuclear charge, and excitation energy, and the isotopic identification of the full fragment distribution. This work reports on new data from the second experiment of the campaign on fission-fragment yields of the heavy actinides U-238, Np-239, Pu-240, Cm-244, and Cf-250, which are of interest from both fundamental and application points of view.
Author
D. Ramos
Universidade de Santiagode Compostela
University Paris-Saclay
M. Caamano
Universidade de Santiagode Compostela
F. Farget
Normandie University
Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL)
C. Rodriguez-Tajes
Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL)
L. Audouin
University Paris-Saclay
J. Benlliure
Universidade de Santiagode Compostela
E. Casarejos
University of Vigo
E. Clement
Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL)
D. Cortina
Universidade de Santiagode Compostela
O. Delaune
Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL)
CEA DAM DIF
X. Derkx
Normandie University
A. Dijon
Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL)
D. Dore
University Paris-Saclay
B. Fernandez-Dominguez
Universidade de Santiagode Compostela
G. de France
Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL)
Andreas Martin Heinz
Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic and Plasma Physics
B. Jacquot
Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL)
A. Navin
Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL)
C. Paradela
Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission
Universidade de Santiagode Compostela
M. Rejmund
Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL)
T. Roger
Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL)
M-D Salsac
University Paris-Saclay
C. Schmitt
Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL)
University of Strasbourg
Physical Review C
24699985 (ISSN) 24699993 (eISSN)
Vol. 97 5 054612Subject Categories
Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation
Subatomic Physics
Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevC.97.054612