Fusion of neutron-rich oxygen nuclei

deSouza, Romualdo; Vadas, Justin; Singh, Varinderjit; Wiggins, Blake; Steinbach, Tracy; Lin, Zidu; Horowitz, Chuck; Baby, Lagy; Kuvin, Sean; Tripathi, Vandana; Wiedenhover, Ingo; Umar, Sait

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201716300013

Title: Fusion of neutron-rich oxygen nuclei

Abstract

Measurement of the fusion excitation function for ¹⁸O + ¹²C and ¹⁹O + ¹²C is described. The fusion cross-section is extracted through the direct measurement of evaporation residues resulting from the fusion process. At near barrier energies, the single additional neutron present in ¹⁹O results in an enhancement in the fusion cross-section by a factor of over three as compared to ¹⁸O.

Authors:

deSouza, Romualdo ^[1]; Vadas, Justin ^[1]; Singh, Varinderjit ^[1]; Wiggins, Blake ^[1]; Steinbach, Tracy ^[1]; Lin, Zidu ^[2]; Horowitz, Chuck ^[3]; Baby, Lagy ^[4]; Kuvin, Sean ^[4]; Tripathi, Vandana ^[4]; Wiedenhover, Ingo ^[4]; Umar, Sait ^[5]

Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States). Dept. of Chemistry, and Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter
Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States). Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter, and Dept. of Physics
Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States). Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter, and Dept. of Physics
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). Dept. of Physics
Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Publication Date:: 2017-11-22

Research Org.:: Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1558024

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0013847; SC0008808; FG02-02ER41220; FG02-88ER40404; FG02-87ER40365; PHY-1491574; 1342962

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: EPJ Web of Conferences

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 163; Conference: FUSION17, New Orleans, LA (United States), 15-48 Oct 2017; Journal ID: ISSN 2100-014X

Publisher:: EDP Sciences

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS

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                    deSouza, Romualdo, Vadas, Justin, Singh, Varinderjit, Wiggins, Blake, Steinbach, Tracy, Lin, Zidu, Horowitz, Chuck, Baby, Lagy, Kuvin, Sean, Tripathi, Vandana, Wiedenhover, Ingo, and Umar, Sait. Fusion of neutron-rich oxygen nuclei.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
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                    deSouza, Romualdo, Vadas, Justin, Singh, Varinderjit, Wiggins, Blake, Steinbach, Tracy, Lin, Zidu, Horowitz, Chuck, Baby, Lagy, Kuvin, Sean, Tripathi, Vandana, Wiedenhover, Ingo, & Umar, Sait. Fusion of neutron-rich oxygen nuclei.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716300013

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                    deSouza, Romualdo, Vadas, Justin, Singh, Varinderjit, Wiggins, Blake, Steinbach, Tracy, Lin, Zidu, Horowitz, Chuck, Baby, Lagy, Kuvin, Sean, Tripathi, Vandana, Wiedenhover, Ingo, and Umar, Sait. Wed .  
"Fusion of neutron-rich oxygen nuclei".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716300013.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1558024.

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@article{osti_1558024,

  title        = {Fusion of neutron-rich oxygen nuclei},

  author       = {deSouza, Romualdo and Vadas, Justin and Singh, Varinderjit and Wiggins, Blake and Steinbach, Tracy and Lin, Zidu and Horowitz, Chuck and Baby, Lagy and Kuvin, Sean and Tripathi, Vandana and Wiedenhover, Ingo and Umar, Sait},

  abstractNote = {Measurement of the fusion excitation function for 18O + 12C and 19O + 12C is described. The fusion cross-section is extracted through the direct measurement of evaporation residues resulting from the fusion process. At near barrier energies, the single additional neutron present in 19O results in an enhancement in the fusion cross-section by a factor of over three as compared to 18O.},

  doi          = {10.1051/epjconf/201716300013},

  journal      = {EPJ Web of Conferences},

  number       = ,

  volume       = 163,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2017},

  month        = {11}

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