Production and Deexcitation of Hot Nuclei in Collisions of 27 MeV/Nucleon 40Ar + 238U
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-30-1990
Publication Source
Nuclear Physics A
Volume Number
511
Issue Number
1
First Page
195
Last Page
220
Publisher
Elsevier
Abstract
Hot nuclei, produced in the reaction 1080 MeV 40Ar+238U, have been studied by means of the light charged particles emitted in coincidence with fission fragments. A dominant fraction of the light charged particles emitted in the backward hemisphere (60%, 75%, 80% and 85% for 1,2,3H and 4He, respectively) comes from evaporation from a composite nucleus prior to scission. Careful analysis of the cross sections and energy spectra of these evaporated particles yields several properties of the hot nuclear emitters: (i) they are thermalized with an average temperature of 4.0–4.6 MeV, (ii) they are quite deformed (mean axis ratio ) and are rapidly spinning (). Predictions from a dynamical model, based on the Landau-Vlasov equation, are consistent with the experimental results, and give insights into the time evolution of the fused system
Recommended Citation
Repository citation: Jacquet, D.; Peaslee, Graham F.; Alexander, John M.; Borderie, B.; Duek, E.; Galin, J.; Gardes, D.; Grégorie, C.; Guerreau, D.; Fuchs, H.; Lefort, M.; Rivet, M. F.; and Tarrago, X., "Production and Deexcitation of Hot Nuclei in Collisions of 27 MeV/Nucleon 40Ar + 238U" (1990). Faculty Publications. Paper 1134.
https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/faculty_publications/1134
Published in: Nuclear Physics A, Volume 511, Issue 1, April 30, 1990, pages 195-220. Copyright © 1990 Elsevier.
