Recoil-α-fission and recoil-α–α-fission events observed in the reaction 48Ca + 243Am
Abstract
Products of the fusion-evaporation reaction 48Ca + 243Am were studied with the TASISpec set-up at the gas-filled separator TASCA at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany. Amongst the detected thirty correlated α-decay chains associated with the production of element , two recoil-α-fission and five recoil--fission events were observed. The latter five chains are similar to four such events reported from experiments performed at the Dubna gas-filled separator, and three such events reported from an experiment at the Berkeley gas-filled separator. The four chains observed at the Dubna gas-filled separator were assigned to start from the 2n-evaporation channel 289 115 due to the fact that these recoil--fission events were observed only at low excitation energies. Contrary to this interpretation, we suggest that some of these recoil--fission decay chains, as well as some of the recoil--fission and recoil-α-fission decay chains reported from Berkeley and in this article, start from the 3n-evaporation channel 288 115.
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- Lund Univ. (Sweden)
- Helmholtz Inst. Mainz (Germany)
- Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz (Germany)
- Helmholtz Inst. Mainz (Germany); Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz (Germany); GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool (United Kingdom)
- Helmholtz Inst. Mainz (Germany); GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany)
- Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Mainz (Germany)
- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany); Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Ibaraki (Japan)
- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany)
- Helmholtz Inst. Mainz (Germany); Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz (Germany)
- Univ. of Warsaw, Warsaw (Poland); Univ. of York, York (United Kingdom)
- Helmholtz Inst. Mainz (Germany); Univ. of Groningen, Groningen (The Netherlands)
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany)
- Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool (United Kingdom); Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Mainz (Germany)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Warsaw, Warsaw (Poland); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
- Univ. of Oslo, Oslo (Norway)
- Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool (United Kingdom); Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla (Finland)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
- Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI) and Univ. of Bern, Villigen (Switzerland)
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- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); European Commision (EC); Royal Physiographic Society in Lund (Sweden); Swedish Research Council (SRC); German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) (United Kingdom); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1332816
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1347248; OSTI ID: 1358655; OSTI ID: 1454485; OSTI ID: 1492176
- Grant/Contract Number:
- NA0002847; NA0002574; SC0008511; 262010; AC02-05CH11231; AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nuclear Physics. A
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 953; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0375-9474
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; superheavy elements; Element 115; Uup; α decay; spontaneous fission
Citation Formats
Forsberg, Ulrika, Rudolph, D., Andersson, L. -L., Di Nitto, A., Dullmann, Ch. E., Fahlander, C., Gates, J. M., Golubev, P., Gregorich, K. E., Gross, C. J., Herzberg, R. -D., HeBberger, F. P., Khuyagbaatar, J., Kratz, J. V., Rykaczewski, K., Sarmiento, L. G., Schadel, M., Yakushev, A., Aberg, S., Ackermann, D., Block, M., Brand, H., Carlsson, B. G., Cox, D., Derkx, X., Dobaczewski, J., Eberhardt, K., Even, J., Gerl, J., Jager, E., Kindler, B., Krier, J., Kojouharov, I., Kurz, N., Lommel, B., Mistry, A., Mokry, C., Nazarewicz, W., Nitsche, H., Omtvedt, J. P., Papadakis, P., Ragnarsson, I., Runke, J., Schaffner, H., Schausten, B., Shi, Yue, Thorle-Pospiech, P., Torres, T., Traut, T., Trautmann, N., Turler, A., Ward, A., Ward, D. E., and Wiehl, N. Recoil-α-fission and recoil-α–α-fission events observed in the reaction 48Ca + 243Am. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2016.04.025.
Forsberg, Ulrika, Rudolph, D., Andersson, L. -L., Di Nitto, A., Dullmann, Ch. E., Fahlander, C., Gates, J. M., Golubev, P., Gregorich, K. E., Gross, C. J., Herzberg, R. -D., HeBberger, F. P., Khuyagbaatar, J., Kratz, J. V., Rykaczewski, K., Sarmiento, L. G., Schadel, M., Yakushev, A., Aberg, S., Ackermann, D., Block, M., Brand, H., Carlsson, B. G., Cox, D., Derkx, X., Dobaczewski, J., Eberhardt, K., Even, J., Gerl, J., Jager, E., Kindler, B., Krier, J., Kojouharov, I., Kurz, N., Lommel, B., Mistry, A., Mokry, C., Nazarewicz, W., Nitsche, H., Omtvedt, J. P., Papadakis, P., Ragnarsson, I., Runke, J., Schaffner, H., Schausten, B., Shi, Yue, Thorle-Pospiech, P., Torres, T., Traut, T., Trautmann, N., Turler, A., Ward, A., Ward, D. E., & Wiehl, N. Recoil-α-fission and recoil-α–α-fission events observed in the reaction 48Ca + 243Am. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2016.04.025
Forsberg, Ulrika, Rudolph, D., Andersson, L. -L., Di Nitto, A., Dullmann, Ch. E., Fahlander, C., Gates, J. M., Golubev, P., Gregorich, K. E., Gross, C. J., Herzberg, R. -D., HeBberger, F. P., Khuyagbaatar, J., Kratz, J. V., Rykaczewski, K., Sarmiento, L. G., Schadel, M., Yakushev, A., Aberg, S., Ackermann, D., Block, M., Brand, H., Carlsson, B. G., Cox, D., Derkx, X., Dobaczewski, J., Eberhardt, K., Even, J., Gerl, J., Jager, E., Kindler, B., Krier, J., Kojouharov, I., Kurz, N., Lommel, B., Mistry, A., Mokry, C., Nazarewicz, W., Nitsche, H., Omtvedt, J. P., Papadakis, P., Ragnarsson, I., Runke, J., Schaffner, H., Schausten, B., Shi, Yue, Thorle-Pospiech, P., Torres, T., Traut, T., Trautmann, N., Turler, A., Ward, A., Ward, D. E., and Wiehl, N. Tue .
"Recoil-α-fission and recoil-α–α-fission events observed in the reaction 48Ca + 243Am". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2016.04.025. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1332816.
@article{osti_1332816,
title = {Recoil-α-fission and recoil-α–α-fission events observed in the reaction 48Ca + 243Am},
author = {Forsberg, Ulrika and Rudolph, D. and Andersson, L. -L. and Di Nitto, A. and Dullmann, Ch. E. and Fahlander, C. and Gates, J. M. and Golubev, P. and Gregorich, K. E. and Gross, C. J. and Herzberg, R. -D. and HeBberger, F. P. and Khuyagbaatar, J. and Kratz, J. V. and Rykaczewski, K. and Sarmiento, L. G. and Schadel, M. and Yakushev, A. and Aberg, S. and Ackermann, D. and Block, M. and Brand, H. and Carlsson, B. G. and Cox, D. and Derkx, X. and Dobaczewski, J. and Eberhardt, K. and Even, J. and Gerl, J. and Jager, E. and Kindler, B. and Krier, J. and Kojouharov, I. and Kurz, N. and Lommel, B. and Mistry, A. and Mokry, C. and Nazarewicz, W. and Nitsche, H. and Omtvedt, J. P. and Papadakis, P. and Ragnarsson, I. and Runke, J. and Schaffner, H. and Schausten, B. and Shi, Yue and Thorle-Pospiech, P. and Torres, T. and Traut, T. and Trautmann, N. and Turler, A. and Ward, A. and Ward, D. E. and Wiehl, N.},
abstractNote = {Products of the fusion-evaporation reaction 48Ca + 243Am were studied with the TASISpec set-up at the gas-filled separator TASCA at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany. Amongst the detected thirty correlated α-decay chains associated with the production of element , two recoil-α-fission and five recoil--fission events were observed. The latter five chains are similar to four such events reported from experiments performed at the Dubna gas-filled separator, and three such events reported from an experiment at the Berkeley gas-filled separator. The four chains observed at the Dubna gas-filled separator were assigned to start from the 2n-evaporation channel 289 115 due to the fact that these recoil--fission events were observed only at low excitation energies. Contrary to this interpretation, we suggest that some of these recoil--fission decay chains, as well as some of the recoil--fission and recoil-α-fission decay chains reported from Berkeley and in this article, start from the 3n-evaporation channel 288 115.},
doi = {10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2016.04.025},
journal = {Nuclear Physics. A},
number = C,
volume = 953,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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