Compound-Nucleus Formation Following Direct Interactions to Highly-Excited Final States
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-414, Livermore, CA 94551 (United 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.
- OSTI ID:
- 21143135
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1005, Issue 1; Conference: CNR 2007: 2007 international workshop on compound-nuclear reactions and related topics, Yosemite National Park, CA (United States), 22-26 Oct 2007; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2920714; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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