A Logarithmic, Large-Solid-Angle Detector Telescope for Nuclear Fragmentation

This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-931478

Fission Hindrance in hot 216Th: Evaporation Residue Measurements

The fusion evaporation-residue cross section for 32S+184W has been measured at beam energies of E_beam = 165, 174, 185, 196, 205, 215, 225, 236, 246,and 257 MeV using the ATLAS Fragment Mass Analyzer. The data are compared with Statistical Model calculations and it is found that a nuclear dissipation strength, which increases with excitation energy, is required to reproduce the excitation function. A comparison with previously published data show that the dissipation strength depends strongly on the shell structure of the nuclear system.Comment: 15 pages 9 figure

Search for the Asymmetric Mass Division in the Fission of 182-W

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY 81-14339 and by Indiana Universit

Studies of the /sup 32/S + /sup 182/W reaction

Fission-like products from the reaction /sup 32/S + /sup 182/W were measured over the entire angular range from theta = 10-170/sup 0/ and for bombarding energies of E/sub lab/ = 166, 177, 222, and 260 MeV using an array of eight Si detectors. From the measured energy and flight time the product mass was determined event-by-event by performing the appropriate corrections for the plasma delay and pulse height defect associated with Si detectors. The mass, angular, and total kinetic energy distributions of fission-like fragments are obtained by assuming two-body kinematics. The angular distributions indicate that a fraction of the observed cross section is associated with quasi-fission reactions as observed previously in several other reactions involving /sup 32/S projectiles. Furthermore, we observe an angular dependence of the fragment mass distributions, a feature which is strictly incompatible with compound nucleus decay. Both of these observations indicate that a fraction of fission-like products originate from quasi-fission, a process in which a large degree of mass transfer occurs between the two interaction nuclei in a short time scale. 14 refs., 4 figs., 1 tab

A logarithmic, large-solid-angle detector telescope for nuclear fragmentation

Properties of a logarithmic, large-solid-angle detector telescope for measuring the spectra of light charged particles and/or complex fragments produced in intermediate-energy nuclear reactions are described. Light-ion identification with a phoswich detector which consists of transmission photodiode {Delta}E and CsI(T{ell}) E elements is also discussed, as is the response of silicon microstrip detectors to fission fragments. 6 figs., 4 figs