Rotational Energy and the Diffuseness of the Boundary between Fusion and Strongly Damped Collisions
Abstract
Differences in the kinetic energies of the fragments produced in the scission of the pairs of similar composite nuclei 59Cu-60Zn and 83Y-88Zr are interpreted as resulting from angular momentum fractionation. The energies indicate that some partial waves with angular momenta 10ℏ to 15ℏ below the sharp-cutoff fusion limit lead to strongly damped collisions.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- September 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.696
- Bibcode:
- 1980PhRvL..45..696A
- Keywords:
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- Atomic Collisions;
- Fragments;
- Molecular Rotation;
- Nuclear Fusion;
- Nuclei (Nuclear Physics);
- Angular Momentum;
- Copper Isotopes;
- Kinetic Energy;
- Particle Diffusion;
- Zirconium Isotopes;
- Nuclear and High-Energy Physics;
- 25.70.Bc;
- 25.70.Fq;
- 25.70.Hi;
- Elastic and quasielastic scattering;
- Transfer reactions