Neutron activation cross sections at 14.7 MeV for isotopes of tungsten

Cross sections for (n, 2n), (n, p), (n, α) and [(n, n′p) + (n, pn)] reactions at 14.7 ± 0.3MeV on enriched ^{180, 182, 183, 184, 186}W isotopes have been measured by the activation technique using Ge(Li) detector γ-ray spectroscopy. Some systematic trends in the cross-section data have been analysed. The (n, 2n) reaction at this energy in this mass region is by far the most favoured reaction and accounts for > 80 % of the total inelastic cross section.     

Elastic scattering of 40Ar on 40Ca at Elab = 191, 236 and 272 MeV

Cross sections for elastic scattering of ⁴⁰Ar on ⁴⁰Ca have been measured at energies E_lab = 191, 236 and 272 MeV employing position-sensitive detectors and the method of kinematical coincidences. The experimental data are first compared with the ordinary and the generalized Fresnel models. Only the generalized Fresnel model describes the experimental data well. An optical model analysis with a Woods-Saxon potential yields an energy independent set of parameters (V_R = ?21.76 MeV, r_OR = 1.37 fm, a_R = 0.45 fm; W₁ = ?13.69 MeV, r₀₁ = 1.40 fm, a₁ = 0.36 fm) very similar to the one found in ⁴⁰Ca-⁴⁰Ca scattering at corresponding energies. Values deduced for the total reaction cross sections for the three energies are in good agreement with those predicted by the generalized Fresnel model. The data are also compared with optical model calculations with the real part of the potential replaced by various microscopically determined potentials. The proximity, Fleckner-Mosel and the Krappe-Nix-Sierk potentials like the phenomenological optical model potential reproduce the measured data fairly well over several orders of magnitude.     

Elastic and inelastic scattering of vector polarized deuterons from even samarium isotopes at 56 MeV

Differential cross sections and vector analyzing powers of deuteron elastic and inelastic scattering have been measured at 56 MeV over the whole range of the even samarium isotopes. Comprehensive analyses were performed with the optical model and the coupled-channels formalism. In the optical model analysis, calculations with a global parameter set could reproduce the experimental data only for the vibrational nuclei. The strong coupling approximation was applied assuming the ^{144, 148, 150}Sm to be harmonic vibrators and the ^152,154Sm symmetric rotators. The 2^λ (λ = 2, 3, 4, 6) pole deformation parameters were deduced from a systematic coupled-channels analysis. The transition strengths were extracted from the deformed optical potentials and compared with the corresponding electromagnetic ones. The transition rates for the rotational nuclei agreed with the electro-magnetic ones, but those for the vibrational nuclei gave the systematically smaller values. The latter fact was attributed to the difference between the proton and neutron transition matrix elements near the neutron-closed-shell nuclei. The ratios of the two matrix elements were obtained.     

Nuclear reactions between oxygen isotopes

Elastic and inelastic cross sections have been measured for the system ¹⁶O + ¹⁷O at c.m. energies from 12.5 to 15.5 MeV, and for ¹⁶O + ¹⁸O at c.m. energies from 12 to 20 MeV, at angles between 60° and 125°. Position-sensitive detectors were employed, using the kinematic coincidence technique. The data have been analyzed with particular attention to the contributions of multiple-exchange processes.     

32S-induced reactions at 10 MeV/u bombarding energy

The deep-inelastic processes of the reactions ³²S + ²⁸Si, ^natS, ⁴⁰Ca, ⁵⁸Ni, ⁷⁴Ge are studied at 10 MeV/u bombarding energy employing a kinematical coincidence spectrometer. From the measured energies, momenta, masses and atomic numbers of two heavy fragments the corresponding parameters for the unobserved reaction products and the reaction Q-values are deduced. It is found that the reactions generally show the pattern of a normal deep-inelastic process which is followed by the evaporation of several light particles. But with much less intensities other processes also seem to occur: three-fragment exit channels and incomplete energy damping which is correlated with the emission of a few light particles of high momenta.     

Two-nucleon stripping reactions induced by O in Fe and Ni at 80 MeV

Both the (¹⁶O, ¹⁴N) and (¹⁶O, ¹⁴C) reactions have been investigated on ⁵⁴Fe and ⁵⁸Ni target nuclei at 80 MeV incident energy. Both reactions are selective. The kinematical conditions have been found to act in two ways: (i) the high-spin states are enhanced and (ii) the states involving nucleons in the f- or p-shells are favoured. Three groups of T = 1 analog states have been located in ⁵⁶Ni and ⁶⁰Zn from a comparison of the two transfer reactions on the same target, and configuration assignments are attempted.     

Investigations with two-neutron transfer reactions on the even isotopes of samarium

The (p, t) reaction on the even isotopes of samarium has been investigated at a proton energy of 25.5 MeV. Angular distributions were obtained in the range 18° ≦ θ ≦ 148° with angular steps between 2° and 5°. The experimental energy resolution varied between 35 keV and 50 keV FWHM. Spin and parity assignments are performed by comparing the measured angular distributions to zero-range DWBA calculations. Some difficulties of DWBA calculations for (p, t) reactions are pointed out. The relative cross sections for transitions to different levels of the final nuclei are compared with other (p, t) and (t, p) measurements in the same region of the rare earth isotopes. The dependence of the (p, t) cross sections for different transitions on the neutron number of the final nuclei is discussed. Some 2⁺ states observed in (p, t) and (t, p) reactions are described in the quadrupole pairing vibrational picture.     

A study of the C(p, p′) reactions at 135 MeV

A relativistic mean field approach is used to determine and compare the single-particle Dirac potentials for nuclei and hypernuclei (Λ, Σ, Ξ). A simple model is used and the Dirac-Hartree-Fock equations are reduced to a Schrödinger-like equation. The subsequent central and spin-orbit shell-model potentials are compared to those of phenomenological approach and other recent microscopic approaches. In the case of hypernuclei the Hartree approximation works already quite well without any need of taking into account the strangeness exchange part coming from strange mesons. The influence of the anomalous magnetic moment of the baryon on the spin-orbit term is found to be rather important for both Λ- and Σ-hyperons.     

Excitation functions of some neutron threshold reactions on isotopes of molybdenum

Cross sections were measured for (n,p) reactions on ^{92, 95, 96, 97, 98}mo, (n, α) reactions on ^{92, 98}Mo, and (n, 2n) reaction on ¹⁰⁰Mo for the first time in the neutron energy range of 5.9 to 9.6 MeV. The quasi-monoenergetic neutrons were produced via the ²H(d, n)³He reaction using a deuterium gas target at a compact cyclotron. Use was made of the activation technique in combination with high-resolution γ-ray spectroscopy. Some systematic trends observed in the excitation functions are discussed. For the various isotopes of molybdenum, with increasing mass of the target nucleus, the thresholds of (n,p) and (n,α) reactions increase and the magnitudes of cross sections near the maxima of the excitation functions appear to decrease. Hauser-Feshbach calculations show that in general the excitation functions of (n, p) and (n, α) reactions are described within a factor of 2 by the statistical model only up to about 8 MeV; the (n,2n) reaction on ¹⁰⁰Mo, however, is reproduced well from threshold up to 15 MeV by this model.     

Elastic scattering of positive pions from 12C at 30, 40 and 50 MeV

We have measured the angular distribution of π⁺ elastically scattered from ${}^{12}\text{C at}\text{E}\text{?}{}_{\mathrm{\pi }}\text{= 28.4, 38.6}\text{and}\text{48.9}\text{MeV}$. The angular range was between 13° and 165° lab. Scattered pions were detected with two counter telescopes which required pion identification through the observation of the decay muon. Data agree well with calculations derived from the free πn scattering amplitudes when absorption effects have been included.     

Proton-nucleus elastic scattering at 156 MeV

Cross sections for the elastic scattering of 156 MeV protons on eleven targets ranging from ¹²C to ²⁰⁹Bi were measured and an optical model analysis has been performed. The effect of different optical potentials in DWIA inelastic scattering calculations is shown by some examples.     

Inclusive break-up reactions of 6Li at an incident energy of 26 MeV/nucleon

Inclusive charged particle spectra were measured from nuclear reactions induced by 156 MeV ⁶Li on ⁴⁰Ca. At forward angles the spectra exhibit broad break-up distributions centered around the energy corresponding to the beam velocity. The double differential cross sections together with previous results for a ²⁰⁸Pb target were analyzed in the framework of the DWBA approach to projectile break-up taking into account elastic and inelastic reactions of the break-up fragments. The high energy tails of the background due to preequilibrium emission of complex charged particles were estimated on the basis of the coalescence model.     

Fusion and nonfusion phenomena in the 6Li + 40Ca reaction at 156 MeV

Reaction products from ⁶Li-induced reactions on ⁴⁰Ca at 156 MeV have been studied using the dE × E identification as well as the inclusive γ-ray method. The complete fusion cross section has been found to be σ_F = 67 ± 20 mb. The Z-distribution of fusion evaporation residues is compared with statistical model predictions. The Z-spectrum of reaction products shows a maximum at 15 ? Z ? 20, probably due to transfer and to incomplete fusion. It is suggested that the small value of the fusion cross section is due to the strong competition of ⁶Li break-up processes.     

Intrinsic fragment spins generated in the reactions of 20Ne with 197Au and 238U at 12.6 MeV/nucleon

The average magnitude and alignment of the intrinsic spin of the heavy partner from the reaction of 252 MeV ²⁰Ne with ¹⁹⁷Au and ²³⁸U were determined as a function of Q-value. These spin values were extracted from sequential fission angular distributions obtained in coincidence with projectile-like products. For all Q-values a large out-of-plane anisotropy was observed, while for large negative Q-values an in-plane anisotropy was observed. A very large entrance-channel mass-asymmetry was chosen to provide a stringent test of equilibrium statistical model predictions for the spin alignment. The importance of determining the direction of the line-of-centers of the dinuclear system at scission is discussed. Large values of P_ZZ were deduced for all Q- values. P_XY was observed to be positive in the quasielastic region and negative in the deep-inelastic region. The extracted alignment data are compared to equilibrium statistical model calculations.     

Polarization in neutron-proton scattering at 16.2 MeV

The polarization in the scattering of neutrons from protons has been measured at a lab neutron energy of 16.2 MeV for the three c.m. angles 70°, 100° and 130°, at which the measured polarizations were (+2.95 ± 0.86) %, (+1.84 ± 0.91)% and (+1.62 ± 0.99) % respectively.     

Three particle reactions observed from 10Ne + 12C at 160 MeV

Coincidences between light particles (Z ? 4) and heavy ions (A ? 9) have been measured for the ²⁰Ne + ¹²C reaction at $\text{E}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>lab</mtext>}}\text{(}{}^{20}\text{Ne}\text{) = 160}\text{MeV}$. α, ¹⁶O events from the ¹²C(²⁰Ne, α¹⁶O)¹²C reaction and α, ²⁰Ne events from ¹²C(²⁰Ne, α²⁰Ne)⁸Be have been found. Energy distributions and angular correlations of these events are consistent with α-decay from the intermediate nuclei ²⁰Ne and ²⁴Mg formed by inelastic scattering and α-transfer in a first reaction step.     

The reactions of 12C with 12C AT 293 MeV

Energy spectra, angular distributions, and elemental yield distributions have been measured for products Z = 1?9 produced in the reactions of ¹²C on ¹²C. A total reaction cross section 1170_?100⁺¹⁷⁰ mb was determined from the measured elemental cross sections and the principle of charge conservation. This total reaction cross section is about 250 mb less than the geometric cross section and agrees with the Glauber-model calculations of DeVries and Peng. The experimental energy spectra, angular distributions, and yield distributions were compared with those from model calculations for the statistical decay of the products of fusion and of incomplete fusion reactions. For both types of calculations, a modified version of the code LILITA was used. By comparing the data to model calculations, an upper limit of 75 mb for the fusion cross section was determined. That limit corresponds to an upper limit of L_crit for fusion of 10? in the sharp-cutoff approximation. The dominant reaction mechanisms appear to be incomplete fusion processes.     

Coupled-channels effects for inelastic scattering of 15 MeV polarized deuterons from Ti and Sm isotopes

Cross sections and analyzing powers have been measured for elastic and inelastic scattering of 15 MeV deuterons from ¹⁴⁸'Sm and ¹⁵²Sm. These data, as well as previous data for the ${}^{\mathrm{48,\; 50}}\text{Ti}\text{(}\text{d}\text{, d'}\text{)}$ reaction have been analyzed in the coupled-channels approximation. Data for ⁴⁸Ti and ¹⁵²Sm are better described by the rotational model than by the vibrational model but the quality of the fits is not sufficiently good to establish ($\text{d}\text{, d'}$) reactions as a sensitive method of discriminating between these two models.