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

University Paris-Saclay

Universidade de Santiagode Compostela

M. Caamano

Universidade de Santiagode Compostela

F. Farget

Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL)

Normandie University

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

CEA DAM DIF

Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL)

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

Universidade de Santiagode Compostela

European Commission (EC)

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 054612

Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)

Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation

Subatomic Physics

Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.97.054612

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