Alburger, D.

Beck, C.

Coffin, J.

Freeman, R.

Gallmann, A.

Haas, F.

Heusch, B.

Rami, F.

Wagner, P.

B. Heusch

C. Beck

J.P. Coffin

R.M. Freeman

A. Gallmann

F. Haas

F. Rami

P. Wagner

D.E. Alburger

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THE 18O + 12C FUSION-EVAPORATIONREACTIONB. Heusch, C. Beck, J. Coffin, R. Freeman, A. Gallmann, F. Haas, F. Rami, P.Wagner, D. AlburgerTo cite this version:B. Heusch, C. Beck, J. Coffin, R. Freeman, A. Gallmann, et al.. THE 18O + 12CFUSION-EVAPORATION REACTION. International Conference on Nuclear Behaviour atHigh Angular Momentum, 1980, Strasbourg, France. 41 (C10), pp.C10-229-C10-233, 1980,<10.1051/jphyscol:19801023>. <jpa-00220642>HAL Id: jpa-00220642https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/jpa-00220642Submitted on 1 Jan 1980HAL is a multi-disciplinary open accessarchive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific research documents, whether they are pub-lished or not. The documents may come fromteaching and research institutions in France orabroad, or from public or private research centers.L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, estdestine´e au de´poˆt et a` la diffusion de documentsscientifiques de niveau recherche, publie´s ou non,e´manant des e´tablissements d’enseignement et derecherche franc¸ais ou e´trangers, des laboratoirespublics ou prive´s.JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE Co ZZoque CIO,  suppZ6ment au n O 1 2 ,  Tome 41, d6eembre 1980, page Cl0-229 THE 180 + 'C FUSION-EVAPORATION REACTION B. Heusch, C. Beck, J . P .  Coifin, R.M. Freeman, A. Gallmann, F. Haas, F. Rami, P. G7agner and D.E. Alburger Centre de Reeherches NueZ&aires e t  Universite' Louis Pasteur, 67037 Strasbomg cedez, France. A study of the 180 + 12c fusion evaporation reaction has been undertaken for  3 main reasons : 1) - t o  make a systematic study of the formation cross section f o r  each individual evaporation residue over a broad excitation energy region i n  the compound nucleus 30~i : 30 to  62 MeV.  Previously on1 y total  fusion cross-sections have been reported by Sperr e t  a1 and, a t  lower energies by Eyal e t  a1 2. An entrance channel ef fec t  has also been looked for ,  a t  one bombarding energy, using the 160 + 14c reaction. 2) - t o  compare a l l  resul ts  t o  fusion-evaporation calculations done i n  the framework of the Hauser-Feschbach s t a t i s t i c a l  model. Espe- c i a l ly  what can be learned from such a wide comparison ? 3) - we know that  the 160 + reaction i s  one of the 1 ight  heavy ion systems where osci 1 lat ions have been found i n t h e  energy dependence of the to ta l  fusion cross section. Asimilar osc i l la-  tion appears in  the ine la s t i c  excitat ion of 180 + reaction as has been shown in our laboratory by Freeman and Haas using y-tech- niques 3. However, the total  fusion cross section measured by Sperr e t  a1 shows a smooth variation w i t h  bombarding energy. This has been confirmed by the y-ray work showing tha t  even in the a channels no marked osci l la-  t ions were observed. The reactiop 180 on 12c has been studied fo r  incident laboratory bombarding energies ranging from 32 MeV t o  100 MeV, corresponding to center of mass energies ranging from 12 t o  40 MeV. This includes 4 our preceding measurement done a t  100 MeV . A con- ventional time of f l i g h t  technique has been used with Z identif ication.  On f ig .  1 are shown 3 typical mass spectra obtained a t  the 3 indicated laboratory bombarding energies a t  elab = 10'. The time resolu- L - te t i *  . ,_J MASS Fig. 1 : Energy versus mass spectra fo r  the 180 + 1 2 ~  reaction meas'ured a t  @lab = 10" a t  the three indicated laboratory bombar- ding energies. Article published online by EDP Sciences and available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:19801023C10-230 JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE tion of 200 ps was sufficient to separate completely al l  masses up to 30. The fusion-evaporation residues are located a t  masses r 20. Another characteristic i s  the growing importance of direct channels with bombarding energy. On fig. 2 are shown typical Z spectra measured a t  E l a b  = 53.5 EieV, using a 10 cm long ionization chamber operating with a 90 % Ar - 10 % CH, gas-mixture a t  a pressure of 15 Torr. ... ... ENERG Fig. 2 : Energy-loss versus energy spectra measured for the 180 (Elab 53.5 MeV) + 1 2 ~  reac- tion a t  the four indl cated laboratory angles. the energy dependence of the total fusion cross 16 12 section. This i s  not the caseforthe O +  C reaction where the 2a channel to  2 0 ~ e ,  which i s  the most able one to  carry away angular mo- E,,(MeV) Fig. 3 : Experimental and calculated cross sections versus center of mass bombarding energies for the 180 + 1% fusion evaporation ele- ment residues. menta, dominates for  the same energy range. All cross sections have been obtained by integration 2) - a striking aspect of these curves i s  that a l l  of the angular distributions we measured for labora- reaction channels are varying strongly : the I EXP. I I . Si  - tory angles ranging from 4" to 25'. One measurement a and 2a as we1 1 as the nucleon ones. This i s  of 160 on 14c was made a t  E l a b  = 50 MeV and also an not the case for the carbon + carbon systems independent measurement of 160 on 12c. The 12c con- we have also studied recently or for tamination of the 14c target could be therefore 1fjO + 12C 6 correctly estimated using the elast ic  scattering 3) - the corresponding results for the 160 + 14c data. reaction are presented on Fig. 3, by the On the l e f t  hand side of Fig. 3 are presented squaws. The energy has been corrected to the I 1 I 1 CALC. the relative cross-sections summed for each element over the corresponding isotopes. The advantage of this representation versus bombarding energy i s  that i t  shows directly the dominant deexcitation channels the compound nucleus wi!l, follow and how they behave with increasing angular momenta in the entrance channel. The following remarks can be made : 1) - the dominant fusion-evaporation process up to  Ec.m. = 30 MeV i s  the production of magnesium isotopes (axn channels) and i t  follows closely same excitation energyofthe compound nucleus 3 0 ~ i .  The excellent agreement wi t h  the 180 + 12c data demonstrates that the results are not measureably dependent on the way in which the compound nucleus i s  formed. The very low Q difference (934 keV) between these two systems certainly explains this agreement by the fact that nearly the same angular momenta contribu- te  to  the fusion process. On the right hand side of f ig .  3 are presented the corresponding predictions of the evaporation calcu- theory. On Fig. 4 are reported, a t  4 energies which lation code LILITA from Gomez del Campo and Stok- cover the considered energy range, the mass as well stadt : i t  calctllates the s tat is t ical  Hauser- as the Z distributions. The comparison with the Feschbach cross sections by a Monte-Carlo technique. calculated distributions shows that, i f  the Z ones are The critical angular momenta introduced in these quite we1 1 reproduced, the mass distributions are calculations are extracted from the total fusion not so we1 1 predicted. On the other hand, the dif- cross section data from Sperr e t  a1 using the sharp cut-off approximation. An overall satisfactory agreement with the data i s  found. However i t  i s  interesting to look in detail, isotope by isotope, for the main differences between experience and 40 ECeM. = 10.0 MeV MASS Z .  Fig. 4 : Comparison of the experimental mass and Z cross sections to  those calculated with the code LILITA. ferent calculation codes we used lead approximatively to  the same results. We compared in our previous work a t  E C a m .  =40 MeV the predictions of CASCADE 8 9 from Piihlhofer and GROG1 2 of Grover and Gilat . The results of LILITA which are presented on Fig. 4 are in good agreement with those results. We also tried the code JULIAN from Hillmann and Eyal lo with the same conclusion. Though the more accurate predictions are obtained with the code CASCADE the cheaper one to run i s  LILITA . . . which explains our choice ! Two main differences between experimental and calculated distributions can be outlined : 1) - the calculated nucleon cross sections (leading to Si and A1 isotopes) are generally overesti- mated whereas the 2axn channels (Neon isoto- pes) are underestimated. This i s  a quite general behavior of such evaporation calcula- tions also observed, for example in the C + C 5 systems . or by Pihl hofer e t  a1 for "F + 8. 2) - whereas the tQtal prediction for the Magnesium isotopes i s  correct an inversion in the cross sections predicted for 2 4 ~ g  and 2 5 ~ g  i s  observed as shown in fig. 5. I t  i s  often suggested that pre-compound, or better incomplete fusion occurs in such reactions and here also such a mechanism could explain both observed d,iscrepancies i f  one assumes that an a particle i s  emitted- before fusion : instead of 180 + 12c a 14c + fusion reaction could lead, by neutron evaporation to  25Mg, and by corn to  Neon isotopes (the a particle i s  only bound by 6.2 MeV in 180). However, the 160 + 14c measurement rules out such a 16 C10-232 JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE hypothesis because we obtained, within the experi- mental errors, exactly the same cross sections as in the 180 + 12c reaction for each Mg isotope and also for each Neon isotope. Fig. 5 : Comparison between experimental and predic- ted cross-sections for 24~g and 2 5 ~  versus center of mass bombarding energy. One can also look a t  a l l  these results by analysing how the increasing angular momenta are evacuated when the energy i s  increased. On Fig. 6 are presented very recent results of calculations by Abe and Haas l1 who count the number of a l l  open channels available per unit of flux versus the gra- zing angular momenta. Also plotted are the level I densities for the grazing angular momentum J 9' J g -  1 and Jg -2 .  Infac t  these 3 contributions domi- nate, a t  each energy, the total reaction cross- section. One observes also that, for 180 + '*c, in I I I I I I I 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 GRhZlkG ANGULAR MOMENTUM Fig. 6 : Calculated density of states in the compound nucleus 30Si for the three indicated angular momenta. The number of open channels versus Jg i s  also reported for the three indicated reactions. the energy range considered here, the number of open channels able to evacuate the grazing angular momenta i s  nearly a factor 100 higher compared to 160 + 12c. This explains the absence of resonant structure in the 180 + '*c fusion channels. Moreover, the cross section for the Mg isotopes follows closely the decrease of the avai 1 able channels. A t  the highest energies (EcSm = 40 MeV corresponds to R = 24 *) 9 the calculations show that the compound nucleus cannot absorbe the highest angular momenta and i n  fact one observes experimentally the large increase of the direct components. On Fig. 7 are presented for 3 angular momhta the corresponding distributions of the number of open channels. This figure i s  a very nice illustration of the competition,between the different possible outgoing channels and i 11 ustrates the main advantage of these non 1 imitative cal cula- tions in the framework of the s tat is t ical  model. A t  low energies (R = 4) neutron channels dominate 9 whereas a t  high energy the 5 strong di rec t  channels we observed (indicated by arrows) are open. UI r Fig. 7 : Distribution of the number of open channels fo r  three grazing angular momenta. Arrows indicate the observed di rec t  channels. As i t  i s  shown i n  the table,  5 different reac- tions leading t o  3 0 ~ i  as compound nucleus can be used to  check entrance channel ef fec ts ,  due e i the r  t o  Q Reaction Mass Channel - Lowest bindi6g leading t o  Excess spin 30Si as C.N. (MeV) energy (MeV) 180 +' 1 Z c  - 0.8 0 a : 6.2 170 + 13c t 2.3 3 n : 4.9 160 + i4c - 1.7 0 a : 7.2 1 5 N t 1 5 #  t 0.2 1 p : 10.2 "F t "B t 7.2 2 a : 4.0 ef fec ts  and/or channel spin effects.  Conjeaud e t  a1 ' l2 i n  Saclay have compawd the to ta l  fusion cross-sections fo r  180 + and 170 t 13c : the differences fo r  the extracted c r i t i ca l  angular momenta r e f l ec t  exactly the mass excess difference a t  low energies. Therefore i t  will be a lso  inte- rest ing t o  look fo r  an eventual channel spin ef fec t  f o r  this system. Such a complete study is also a mechanism cannot account fo r  the measured spectra b u t  i t  i s  also clear tha t  exclusive measurements will be necessary. References : 1. P. Sperr e t  a l . ,  Phys. Rev. Lett. 37 (1976) 321 -2. Y. Eyal e t  a1 . , Phys. Rev. g (1976) 1527 3. R.M. Freeman and F. Haas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 40 (1978) 927 4. J.P. Cof f ine ta l . ,  Phys. R e v . E ( l 9 7 8 )  1607 5. B. Heusch e t  a l . ,  t o  be published 7. Code LILITA, J .  Gomez del Campo and R.G. Stockstadt, unpublished 8. F. Piihlhofer, Nucl. Phys. A280 (1977) 267 9. J.R. Grover and J .  Gilat ,  Phys. Rev. 157 -(1967) 802 10, Code JULIAN, Hillmann and Eyal , ,unpublished 11. Y. Abe and F. Haas, . t o  be pub1 ished 12. M. Conjeaud e t  a l . ,  Note CEA-N-2070 * Present address : Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, L.I., N.Y.  11973 (U .S .A . )  good check for  incomplete fusion processes. A t  l eas t  a t  one energy we have shown tha t  such reaction 

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