Compound-Nucleus Formation Following Direct Interactions to Highly-Excited Final States
When direct reactions populate highly excited, unbound configurations in the residual nucleus, the nucleus may further evolve into a compound nucleus. Alternatively, the residual system may decay by emitting particles into the continuum. Understanding the relative weights of these two processes as a function of the angular momentum and parity deposited in the nucleus is important for the surrogate-reaction technique. A particularly interesting case is compound-nucleus formation via the (d, p) reaction, which may be a useful tool for forming compound nuclei off the valley of stability in inverse-kinematics experiments. We present here a study of the compound formation probability for a closely-related direct reaction, direct-semidirect radiative neutron capture.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 926050
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-PROC-401124; TRN: US0802491
- Resource Relation:
- Journal Volume: 1005; Conference: Presented at: Compound-Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics, Fish Camp, CA, United States, Oct 22 - Oct 26, 2007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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