Fusion Cross Sections for the Proton Drip Line Nucleus ^17F at Energies Below the Barrier
Abstract
A beam of radioactive ^17F (t_1/2=65 s) nuclei has been developed at the ATLAS accelerator using an in-flight production technique. With this beam the fusion-fission cross section for the system ^17F + ^208Pb has been measured at energies in the vicinity of the Coulomb barrier. No enhancement of the fusion-fission yields due to breakup or to a large interaction radius was observed despite the presence of the weakly bound first excited 1/2^+ 'halo' state in ^17F.
- Publication:
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APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- October 1998
- Bibcode:
- 1998APS..DNP..J305R