Study of Quasielastic Barrier Distributions as a Step towards the Synthesis of Superheavy Elements with Hot Fusion Reactions
Abstract
The excitation functions for quasielastic scattering of , , and are measured using a gas-filled recoil ion separator. The quasielastic barrier distributions are extracted for these systems and are compared with coupled-channel calculations. The results indicate that the barrier distribution is affected dominantly by deformation of the actinide target nuclei, but also by vibrational or rotational excitations of the projectile nuclei, as well as neutron transfer processes before capture. From a comparison between the experimental barrier distributions and the evaporation residue cross sections for Sg ( ), Hs (108), Cn (112), and Lv (116), it is suggested that the hot fusion reactions take advantage of a compact collision, where the projectile approaches along the short axis of a prolately deformed nucleus. Overall, a new method is proposed to estimate the optimum incident energy to synthesize unknown superheavy nuclei using the barrier distribution.
- Authors:
-
- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Saitama (Japan); Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka (Japan); Australian National Univ., Canberra, ACT (Australia)
- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Saitama (Japan); Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka (Japan)
- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Saitama (Japan)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Saitama (Japan); Yamagata Univ. (Japan)
- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Saitama (Japan); Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai (Japan). Advanced Science Research Center
- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai (Japan). Advanced Science Research Center
- Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan); Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan). Research Center for Electron Photon Science; Kyoto Univ. (Japan)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1669769
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; 19002005
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 124; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Low & intermediate energy heavy-ion reactions; nuclear fusion; nuclear reactions
Citation Formats
Tanaka, T., Morita, K., Morimoto, K., Kaji, D., Haba, H., Boll, R. A., Brewer, N. T., Van Cleve, S., Dean, D. J., Ishizawa, S., Ito, Y., Komori, Y., Nishio, K., Niwase, T., Rasco, B. C., Roberto, J. B., Rykaczewski, K. P., Sakai, H., Stracener, D. W., and Hagino, K. Study of Quasielastic Barrier Distributions as a Step towards the Synthesis of Superheavy Elements with Hot Fusion Reactions. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.124.052502.
Tanaka, T., Morita, K., Morimoto, K., Kaji, D., Haba, H., Boll, R. A., Brewer, N. T., Van Cleve, S., Dean, D. J., Ishizawa, S., Ito, Y., Komori, Y., Nishio, K., Niwase, T., Rasco, B. C., Roberto, J. B., Rykaczewski, K. P., Sakai, H., Stracener, D. W., & Hagino, K. Study of Quasielastic Barrier Distributions as a Step towards the Synthesis of Superheavy Elements with Hot Fusion Reactions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.052502
Tanaka, T., Morita, K., Morimoto, K., Kaji, D., Haba, H., Boll, R. A., Brewer, N. T., Van Cleve, S., Dean, D. J., Ishizawa, S., Ito, Y., Komori, Y., Nishio, K., Niwase, T., Rasco, B. C., Roberto, J. B., Rykaczewski, K. P., Sakai, H., Stracener, D. W., and Hagino, K. Wed .
"Study of Quasielastic Barrier Distributions as a Step towards the Synthesis of Superheavy Elements with Hot Fusion Reactions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.052502. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1669769.
@article{osti_1669769,
title = {Study of Quasielastic Barrier Distributions as a Step towards the Synthesis of Superheavy Elements with Hot Fusion Reactions},
author = {Tanaka, T. and Morita, K. and Morimoto, K. and Kaji, D. and Haba, H. and Boll, R. A. and Brewer, N. T. and Van Cleve, S. and Dean, D. J. and Ishizawa, S. and Ito, Y. and Komori, Y. and Nishio, K. and Niwase, T. and Rasco, B. C. and Roberto, J. B. and Rykaczewski, K. P. and Sakai, H. and Stracener, D. W. and Hagino, K.},
abstractNote = {The excitation functions for quasielastic scattering of Ne22+Cm248, Mg26+Cm248, and Ca48+U238 are measured using a gas-filled recoil ion separator. The quasielastic barrier distributions are extracted for these systems and are compared with coupled-channel calculations. The results indicate that the barrier distribution is affected dominantly by deformation of the actinide target nuclei, but also by vibrational or rotational excitations of the projectile nuclei, as well as neutron transfer processes before capture. From a comparison between the experimental barrier distributions and the evaporation residue cross sections for Sg (Z=106), Hs (108), Cn (112), and Lv (116), it is suggested that the hot fusion reactions take advantage of a compact collision, where the projectile approaches along the short axis of a prolately deformed nucleus. Overall, a new method is proposed to estimate the optimum incident energy to synthesize unknown superheavy nuclei using the barrier distribution.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.124.052502},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 5,
volume = 124,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Wed Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
Works referenced in this record:
Production of multi-charged ions in the RIKEN 18 GHz ECRIS
journal, November 2004
- Nakagawa, T.; Higurashi, Y.; Kidera, M.
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Vol. 226, Issue 3
Discovery of Enhanced Nuclear Stability near the Deformed Shells and
journal, August 1994
- Lazarev, Yu. A.; Lobanov, Yu. V.; Oganessian, Yu. Ts.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 73, Issue 5
Synthesis of the isotopes of elements 118 and 116 in the and fusion reactions
journal, October 2006
- Oganessian, Yu. Ts.; Utyonkov, V. K.; Lobanov, Yu. V.
- Physical Review C, Vol. 74, Issue 4
A program for coupled-channel calculations with all order couplings for heavy-ion fusion reactions
journal, December 1999
- Hagino, K.; Rowley, N.; Kruppa, A. T.
- Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 123, Issue 1-3
Shell structure of superheavy nuclei in self-consistent mean-field models
text, January 1999
- W., Greiner,; A., Maruhn, J.; K., Rutz,
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Production cross sections of superheavy elements and 120 in hot fusion reactions
journal, February 2014
- Zhu, Long; Xie, Wen-Jie; Zhang, Feng-Shou
- Physical Review C, Vol. 89, Issue 2
Decay properties of and
journal, April 1998
- Türler, A.; Dressler, R.; Eichler, B.
- Physical Review C, Vol. 57, Issue 4
A program for coupled-channels calculations with all order couplings for heavy-ion fusion reactions
text, January 1999
- Hagino, K.; Rowley, N.; Kruppa, A. T.
- arXiv
Barrier distribution for a ‘superheavy’ nucleus–nucleus collision
journal, July 2007
- Ntshangase, S. S.; Rowley, N.; Bark, R. A.
- Physics Letters B, Vol. 651, Issue 1
Fusion of deformed nuclei in the reactions of and at the Coulomb barrier region
journal, May 2000
- Nishio, K.; Ikezoe, H.; Mitsuoka, S.
- Physical Review C, Vol. 62, Issue 1
Synthesis of a New Element with Atomic Number
journal, April 2010
- Oganessian, Yu. Ts.; Abdullin, F. Sh.; Bailey, P. D.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 14
Synthesis and decay process of superheavy nuclei with Z=119-122 via hot-fusion reactions
journal, September 2016
- Ghahramany, N.; Ansari, A.
- The European Physical Journal A, Vol. 52, Issue 9
Recent developments in heavy-ion fusion reactions
journal, March 2014
- Back, B. B.; Esbensen, H.; Jiang, C. L.
- Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 86, Issue 1
Strength of deep-inelastic scattering for 58Ni+124Sn at sub-barrier energies
journal, October 1987
- Wolfs, F. L. H.; Henning, W.; Rehm, K. E.
- Physics Letters B, Vol. 196, Issue 2
Closed shells for Z > 82 and N > 126 in a diffuse potential well
journal, September 1966
- Sobiczewski, A.; Gareev, F. A.; Kalinkin, B. N.
- Physics Letters, Vol. 22, Issue 4
Determination of Fusion Barrier Distributions from Quasielastic Scattering Cross Sections towards Superheavy Nuclei Synthesis
journal, January 2018
- Tanaka, Taiki; Narikiyo, Yoshihiro; Morita, Kosuke
- Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 87, Issue 1
Production of Sg in the Cm( Ne,5 ) Sg reaction and decay properties of two isomeric states in Sg
journal, February 2012
- Haba, H.; Kaji, D.; Kudou, Y.
- Physical Review C, Vol. 85, Issue 2
The reaction 48Ca + 248Cm → 296116* studied at the GSI-SHIP
journal, May 2012
- Hofmann, S.; Heinz, S.; Mann, R.
- The European Physical Journal A, Vol. 48, Issue 5
How elements up to 118 were reached and how to go beyond
journal, January 2017
- Düllmann, Christoph E.
- EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol. 163
Nuclear ground-state masses and deformations: FRDM(2012)
journal, May 2016
- Möller, P.; Sierk, A. J.; Ichikawa, T.
- Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables, Vol. 109-110
On the stability of superheavy nuclei against fission
journal, June 1969
- Mosel, Ulrich; Greiner, Walter
- Zeitschrift für Physik A Hadrons and nuclei, Vol. 222, Issue 3
Physico-chemical characterization of seaborgium as oxide hydroxide
journal, January 2001
- Hübener, S.; Taut, S.; Vahle, A.
- Radiochimica Acta, Vol. 89, Issue 11-12
Fusion-Fission versus Quasifission: Effect of Nuclear Orientation
journal, February 1995
- Hinde, D. J.; Dasgupta, M.; Leigh, J. R.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 74, Issue 8
Synthesis of superheavy nuclei: A search for new production reactions
journal, September 2008
- Zagrebaev, Valery; Greiner, Walter
- Physical Review C, Vol. 78, Issue 3
Estimating fission-barrier height by the spherical-basis method
journal, November 2014
- Koura, H.
- Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Vol. 2014, Issue 11
Observation of the Evaporation Channel in the Complete Hot-Fusion Reaction Leading to the New Superheavy Nuclide
journal, April 2008
- Dvorak, J.; Brüchle, W.; Chelnokov, M.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 100, Issue 13
Status and perspectives of the Dubna superheavy element factory
journal, January 2016
- Dmitriev, Sergey; Itkis, Mikhail; Oganessian, Yuri
- EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol. 131
Reduced electric-octupole transition probabilities, B(E3;01+ → 31−), for even-even nuclides throughout the periodic table
journal, May 1989
- Spear, R. H.
- Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables, Vol. 42, Issue 1
On the search for elements beyond Z =118. An outlook based on lessons from the heaviest known elements
journal, January 2016
- Düllmann, Christoph E.
- EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol. 131
Production and decay of the isotope 271 Ds (Z = 110)
journal, August 2004
- Morita, K.; Morimoto, K.; Kaji, D.
- The European Physical Journal A, Vol. 21, Issue 2
Measurements of cross sections and decay properties of the isotopes of elements 112, 114, and 116 produced in the fusion reactions , , and
journal, December 2004
- Oganessian, Yu. Ts.; Utyonkov, V. K.; Lobanov, Yu. V.
- Physical Review C, Vol. 70, Issue 6
Quantum tunneling in nuclear fusion
journal, January 1998
- Balantekin, A. B.; Takigawa, N.
- Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 70, Issue 1
Large-angle scattering and quasielastic barrier distributions
journal, May 2004
- Hagino, K.; Rowley, N.
- Physical Review C, Vol. 69, Issue 5
The reaction 48Ca + 238U → 286112* studied at the GSI-SHIP
journal, June 2007
- Hofmann, S.; Ackermann, D.; Antalic, S.
- The European Physical Journal A, Vol. 32, Issue 3
Experiments on the synthesis of element 115 in the reaction
journal, February 2004
- Oganessian, Yu. Ts.; Utyonkoy, V. K.; Lobanov, Yu. V.
- Physical Review C, Vol. 69, Issue 2
Subbarrier fusion reactions and many-particle quantum tunneling
text, January 2012
- Hagino, K.; Takigawa, N.
- arXiv
Time-dependent Hartree-Fock plus Langevin approach for hot fusion reactions to synthesize the superheavy element
journal, May 2019
- Sekizawa, K.; Hagino, K.
- Physical Review C, Vol. 99, Issue 5
Estimation for Synthesis of Superheavy Elements
conference, December 2018
- Aritomo, Yoshihiro; Liyana, Nur; Tanaka, Shoya
- Proceedings of the Ito International Research Center Symposium "Perspectives of the Physics of Nuclear Structure"
Variable frequency heavy-ion linac, RILAC
journal, November 1984
- Odera, Masatoshi; Chiba, Yoshiaki; Tonuma, Tadao
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 227, Issue 2
Isotopic dependence of fusion cross sections in reactions with heavy nuclei
text, January 1999
- Adamian, G. G.; Antonenko, N. V.; Scheid, W.
- arXiv
Subbarrier Fusion Reactions and Many-Particle Quantum Tunneling
journal, December 2012
- Hagino, K.; Takigawa, N.
- Progress of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 128, Issue 6
Probing fusion barrier distributions with quasi-elastic scattering
journal, February 1995
- Timmers, H.; Leigh, J. R.; Dasgupta, M.
- Nuclear Physics A, Vol. 584, Issue 1
Measurements of cross sections for the fusion-evaporation reactions and
journal, May 2004
- Oganessian, Yu. Ts.; Utyonkov, V. K.; Lobanov, Yu. V.
- Physical Review C, Vol. 69, Issue 5
Estimates of production and structure of nuclei with Z= 119
journal, February 2018
- Adamian, G. G.; Antonenko, N. V.; Lenske, H.
- Nuclear Physics A, Vol. 970
Barrier Distributions Derived from Quasielastic Backscattering of , , , , and Projectiles on a Target
journal, November 2007
- Mitsuoka, S.; Ikezoe, H.; Nishio, K.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 99, Issue 18
Measuring Barriers to Fusion
journal, December 1998
- Dasgupta, M.; Hinde, D. J.; Rowley, N.
- Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Vol. 48, Issue 1
Hot fusion reactions with deformed nuclei for synthesis of superheavy nuclei: An extension of the fusion-by-diffusion model
journal, July 2018
- Hagino, K.
- Physical Review C, Vol. 98, Issue 1
On the “distribution of barriers” interpretation of heavy-ion fusion
journal, January 1991
- Rowley, N.; Satchler, G. R.; Stelson, P. H.
- Physics Letters B, Vol. 254, Issue 1-2
Review of even element super-heavy nuclei and search for element 120
journal, June 2016
- Hofmann, S.; Heinz, S.; Mann, R.
- The European Physical Journal A, Vol. 52, Issue 6
Nuclear masses and deformations
journal, June 1966
- Myers, William D.; Swiatecki, Wladyslaw J.
- Nuclear Physics, Vol. 81, Issue 1
Barrier distributions from the fusion of oxygen ions with and
journal, December 1995
- Leigh, J. R.; Dasgupta, M.; Hinde, D. J.
- Physical Review C, Vol. 52, Issue 6
Severe Inhibition of Fusion by Quasifission in Reactions Forming
journal, December 2002
- Hinde, D. J.; Dasgupta, M.; Mukherjee, A.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 89, Issue 28
Isotopic dependence of fusion cross sections in reactions with heavy nuclei
journal, September 2000
- Adamian, G. G.; Antonenko, N. V.; Scheid, W.
- Nuclear Physics A, Vol. 678, Issue 1-2
Fission and quasifission toward the superheavy mass region
journal, August 2019
- Vardaci, E.; Itkis, M. G.; Itkis, I. M.
- Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol. 46, Issue 10
Fission and Quasifission Toward the Superheavy Mass Region
conference, December 2019
- Vardaci, E.; Itkis, M. G.; Itkis, I. M.
- International Symposium on Exotic Nuclei EXON-2018
Shell structure of superheavy nuclei in self-consistent mean-field models
journal, August 1999
- Bender, M.; Rutz, K.; Reinhard, P. -G.
- Physical Review C, Vol. 60, Issue 3
Transition Probability from the Ground to the First-Excited 2+ State of Even–Even Nuclides
journal, May 2001
- Raman, S.; Nestor, C. W.; Tikkanen, P.
- Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables, Vol. 78, Issue 1
RIKEN isotope separator on-line GARIS/IGISOL
journal, August 1992
- Morita, K.; Yoshida, A.; Inamura, T. T.
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Vol. 70, Issue 1-4
Note: Effect of hot liner in producing 40,48 Ca beam from RIKEN 18-GHz electron cyclotron resonance ion source
journal, January 2015
- Ozeki, K.; Higurashi, Y.; Kidera, M.
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 86, Issue 1
Inverse quasifission in the reactions
journal, December 2017
- Kozulin, E. M.; Zagrebaev, V. I.; Knyazheva, G. N.
- Physical Review C, Vol. 96, Issue 6