{sup 132}Sn+{sup 96}Zr reaction: A study of fusion enhancement/hindrance
- Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331 (United States)
Capture-fission cross sections were measured for the collision of the massive nucleus {sup 132}Sn with {sup 96}Zr at center-of-mass energies ranging from 192.8 to 249.6 MeV in an attempt to study fusion enhancement and hindrance in this reaction involving very neutron-rich nuclei. Coincident fission fragments were detected using silicon detectors. Using angle and energy conditions, deep inelastic scattering events were separated from fission events. Coupled-channels calculations can describe the data if the surface diffuseness parameter, a, is allowed to be 1.10 fm instead of the customary 0.6 fm. The measured capture-fission cross sections agree moderately well with model calculations using the dinuclear system model. If we use this model to predict fusion barrier heights for these reactions, we find the predicted fusion hindrance, as represented by the extra push energy, is greater for the more neutron-rich system, lessening the advantage of the lower interaction barriers with neutron-rich projectiles.
- OSTI ID:
- 21199380
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 78, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.78.054608; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2813
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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