Destination fusion
The orbiting yields of reaction products from the /sup 28/Si + /sup 14/N interaction have been measured. The relative magnitudes of the orbiting yields indicate that the dinuclear complex (DNCs) formed in such interactions live sufficiently long to permit the equilibration of charge and mass. Since both the /sup 16/O and the /sup 12/C orbiting yields exceed the /sup 14/N, it appears that there is no preferred directions for mass flow between the interacting nuclei. Since the orbiting yields are typically 10% of the fusion yield, and we believe the orbiting process reflects how the DNCs formed in such collisions evolve towards fusion, it seems apt to conclude that fusion occurs not through a process of continual particle exchange whereby one nucleus is gradually consumed by the other, but by a dinuclear system that retains it mass asymmetry. 17 refs., 2 figs., 1 tab.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA); Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (USA). Nuclear Structure Lab.; Virginia Univ., Charlottesville (USA); Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (USA). Dept. of Physics; Tennessee Technological Univ., Cookeville (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76ER03074; AC05-84OR21400
- OSTI ID:
- 5971436
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-860396-4; ON: DE86008881; TRN: 86-014137
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Symposium on the many facets of heavy ion fusion reactions, Argonne, IL, USA, 24 Mar 1986; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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OXYGEN 16
CARBON ISOTOPES
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
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Experimental- Nuclear Reactions & Scattering- (-1987)