Comparison of the spontaneous fission of 244Cm and 252Cf: (I). Fragment masses and kinetic energies

The energy of both fission fragments of ²⁴⁴Cm and ²⁵²Cf, respectively, was measured in coincidence with the prompt neutrons (see part II). Energy calibration of the surface-barrier detectors was done after the method of Schmitt et al. with the ²⁵²Cf fragments. Mean values and rms widths of the mass and energy distributions of both isotopes are calculated and compared with the results of other authors. The total kinetic energy of ²⁴⁴Cm fragments is at least as high as that of ²⁵²Cf fragments.     

Multiparticle production of doubly charged fragments in the fragmentation of relativistic nuclei

Features of angular distributions of events involving two or more doubly charged fragments of relativistic nuclei ²²Ne, ²⁴Mg, ¹⁴N, ¹¹B, and ¹⁰B in photoemulsions are studied. It is found that, in all cases, with the exception of the case of the intermediate-state decay ⁸Be → 2α, the fragments in these events are independent of one another. The inclusive angular distributions of fragments of relativistic nuclei ²²Ne for events in which the number of particles ranges between one and five are identical. Thus, the emission angle of each fragment of a relativistic nucleus does not depend either on other fragments or on the presence or absence of product particles and target-nucleus fragments in an event.     

140A MeV~(40,48)Ca和~(58,64)Ni炮弹碎裂反应产物的统计擦碎模型计算

用统计擦碎模型计算了140AMeV40,48Ca+9Be和58,64Ni+9Be弹核碎裂反应产物的截面.通过对碎片截面计算结果和实验测量结果的比较发现,采用自由空间的核子-核子反应截面计算时,对非中心反应产物的截面拟合很好,而对中心反应产物的截面有较大高估,而采用饱和密度相关的核子-核子反应截面计算时,对非周边反应产物的截面拟合较好,而对周边反应产物的截面有一定程度的低估.在统计擦碎模型中,对核子-核子反应截面进行细致的介质密度关联,可能会改进计算值与实验值的符合程度.     

Angular momenta of fission fragments in the α-accompanied fission of 252Cf

For the first time, average angular momenta of the ternary fission fragments ^{100, 102}Zr, ¹⁰⁶Mo, ^{144, 146}Ba and ^{138, 140, 142}Xe from the α-accompanied fission of ²⁵²Cf were obtained from relative intensities of prompt γ-ray transitions with the use of the statistical model calculation. Average values of the angular momenta were compared with the corresponding values for the same fission fragments from the binary fission of ²⁵²Cf. Results indicate the presence of a decreasing trend in the average values of angular momenta induced in ternary fission fragments compared to the same binary fission fragments. On the average, the total angular momentum extracted for ternary fission fragments is ∼1.4 ℏ lower than in binary fission. Consequently, results indicate that the mechanism of the ternary α-particles emission may directly effect an induction of angular momenta of fission fragments, and possible scenarios of such mechanisms are discussed. Further, the dependence of the angular momenta of ¹⁰⁶Mo and ¹⁴⁰Xe on the number of emitted neutrons from correlated pairs of primary fragments was obtained also showing a decreasing dependence of average angular momenta with increasing number of emitted neutrons. Consequences are briefly discussed.     

Isospin effect in peripheral heavy-ion collisions at Fermi energies

The isospin effect in peripheral heavy-ion collisions was thoroughly investigated within the framework of the Lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics (LQMD) transport model. A coalescence approach was used to recognize the primary fragments formed in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The secondary decay process of these fragments was described using the statistical code GEMINI. The production mechanism and isospin effect of the projectile-like and target-like fragments were analyzed using the combined approach. It was found that the isospin migration from the high-isospin density to the low-density matter occurred in the neutron-rich nuclear reactions, i.e., ⁴⁸Ca+²⁰⁸Pb, ⁸⁶Kr+⁴⁸Ca/²⁰⁸Pb/¹²⁴Sn, ¹³⁶Xe+²⁰⁸Pb, ¹²⁴Sn+¹²⁴Sn, and ¹³⁶Xe+¹³⁶Xe. A hard symmetry energy was available for creating the neutron-rich fragments, particularly in the medium-mass region. The isospin effect of the neutron-to-proton (n/p) ratio of the complex fragments was reduced when the secondary decay process was included. However, a soft symmetry energy enhanced the n/p ratio of the light particles, particularly at kinetic energies greater than 15 MeV/nucleon.     

Fragmentation channels of relativistic 7Be nuclei in peripheral interactions

At the JINR Nuclotron, ⁷Li nuclei are accelerated. The charge-exchange reaction involving these nuclei at an external target provides a secondary 1.23-A-GeV ⁷Be beam. This beam is used to irradiate emulsion chambers. The mean free path λ_inel(⁷Be) = 14.0 ± 0.8 cm for inelastic ⁷Be interactions in an emulsion coincides within the errors with those for ⁶Li and ⁷Li nuclei. More than 10% of the ⁷Be events are associated with the peripheral interactions in which the total charge of the relativistic fragments is equal to the charge of the ⁷Be nucleus and in which charged mesons are not produced. An unusual ratio of the helium isotopes is revealed in the composition of the doubly charged fragments of the ⁷Be nuclei: the number of the ³He fragments is twice as large as that of the ⁴He fragments. Each of 50% of peripheral interaction events includes two doubly charged fragments. The channels of the ⁷Be fragmentation into charged fragments are presented. In 50% of events, the ⁷Be fragmentation occurs only into charged fragments without the emission of neutrons. The ⁴He + ³He channel dominates, whereas each of the ⁴He + d + p and ⁶Li + p channels constitutes 10%. Two events without neutron emission are observed in the ³He + t + p and ³He + d + d three-body channels. The mean free path for the coherent dissociation of relativistic ⁷Be nuclei into ⁴He + ³He is equal to 7 ± 1 m. The main features of the fragmentation of relativistic ⁷Be nuclei in such peripheral interactions are explained by the ³He + ⁴He two-cluster structure of the ⁷Be nucleus.     

30MeV/u40Ar+159Tb反应中中等质量碎片的发射时标与发射机制

报道30MeV/u⁴⁰Ar+¹⁵⁹Tb反应中碎片-碎片关联函数的实验结果．利用三体弹道模型从关联函数提取了中等质量碎片发射时间．中等质量碎片的平均发射时间随碎片能量而变化，从低能时的约500fm/c下降至高能时的约100fm/c．中等质量碎片发射时间随束流能量的升高而下降，表明随着束流能量的升高中等质量碎片发射机制逐渐从相继两体衰变向多重碎裂发射过渡．对于⁴⁰Ar+¹⁵⁹Tb反应，此过渡能区在35—45MeV/u之间 关键词：     

Effect of secondary decay on isoscaling: Results from the canonical thermodynamical model

The projectile fragmentation reactions using ⁵⁸Ni and ⁶⁴Ni beams at 140 MeV/n on targets ⁹Be and ¹⁸¹Ta are studied using the canonical thermodynamical model coupled with an evaporation code. The isoscaling property of the fragments produced is studied using both the primary and the secondary fragments and it is observed that the secondary fragments also respect isoscaling though the isoscaling parameters α and β changes. The temperature needed to reproduce experimental data with the secondary fragments is less than that needed with the primary ones. The canonical model coupled with the evaporation code successfully explains the experimental data for isoscaling for the projectile fragmentation reactions.     

Peripheral fragmentation of 8B nuclei in nuclear emulsion at an energy of 1.2 GeV per nucleon

The results obtained by studying the charge topology of fragments produced in the peripheral dissociation of relativistic ⁸B nuclei in emulsion are presented. Fifty-five events of the peripheral dissociation of a ⁸B nucleus in events where there was no production of target-nucleus fragments and mesons (“white stars”) were selected. A leading contribution of the ⁸B → ⁷Be + p mode, which has the lowest energy threshold, was revealed on the basis of these events. Information about the branching ratios for dissociation modes characterized by a higher multiplicity was obtained. The dissociation of the ⁷Be core in ⁸B bears resemblance to the dissociation of a free ⁷Be nucleus. The transverse-momentum distributions of fragments originating from the ⁸B → ⁷Be + p dissociation mode were obtained. For these distributions, a small mean value of 〈P*_T〉 = 52 ± 5 MeV/c in the c.m. frame suggests a low binding energy of the outer proton in the ⁸B nucleus. An indication of a strong azimuthal correlation of the fragments ⁷Be and p was found.     

Emission of intermediate-mass fragments in the interaction of 16O with 59Co, 93Nb and 197Au

In this paper we study the emission of ⁸Be_gs, B and N fragments in the interaction of ¹⁶O ions with ⁵⁹Co, ⁹³Nb and ¹⁹⁷Au at incident energies varying from 6 to 25 MeV/nucleon. The spectra of these fragments, as well as those of C fragments studied in a previous paper, are dominated at forward angles by a component originating from break-up of ¹⁶O. At the higher incident energies break-up occurs after quite a sizeable projectile energy loss. Another mechanism which dominates at large emission angles, favours the emission of low-energy fragments and is attributed to the coalescence of nucleons during the cascade of nucleon-nucleon interactions by means of which the excited nuclei produced in the primary two-ion interaction thermalize. Received: 21 January 2003 / Accepted: 27 March 2003 / Published online: 5 June 2003     

Pairing-energy coefficients of neutron-rich fragments in spallation reactions

The ratio of pairing-energy coefficient to temperature(a_p/T)of neutron-rich fragments produced in spallation reactions has been investigated by adopting an isobaric yield ratio method deduced in the framework of a modified Fisher model.A series of spallation reactions,0.5A and 1A Ge V~(208)Pb+p,1A Ge V~(238)U+p,0.5A Ge V~(136)Xe+d,0.2A,0.5A and 1A Ge V~(136)Xe+p,and~(56)Fe+p with incident energy ranging from 0.3A to 1.5A Ge V,has been analysed.An obvious odd-even staggering is shown in the fragments with small neutron excess(I≡N-Z),and in the relatively small-A fragments which have large I.The values of a_p/T for the fragments,with I from 0 to36,have been found to be in a range from-4 to 4,and most values of a_p/T fall in the range from-1 to 1.It is suggested that a small pairing-energy coefficient should be considered in predicting the cross sections of fragments in spallation reactions.It is also concluded that the method proposed in this article is not good for fragments with A/A_s85%(where A_(s )is the mass number of the spallation system).     

Emission order of light particles and light fragments from hot nuclei followed by binary fission

Emission orders of light charged particles and Li fragments from highly excited fissioning nuclei in the reaction of ⁴⁰Ar+¹⁹⁷Au at E _beam /A=25 MeV have been studied by measuring difference velocity distributions of two correlated particles at small relative angles in coincidence with two fission fragments. By comparing the data with three-body trajectory calculations, we found that high velocity deuterons are emitted prior to high velocity Li fragments but low velocity deuterons are emitted after low velocity Li fragments. On the other hand, no preferential emission was observed among light particles, such as protons and deuterons. Furthermore, the emission orders are found to depend only weakly on the mass asymmetry of fission fragments. Received: 3 June 1997 / Revised version: 23 July 1997     

Subthreshold photofission of even-even nuclei

Within quantum-mechanical fission theory, the angular distributions of fragments originating from the subthreshold photofission of the even-even nuclei ²³²Th, ²³⁴U, ²³⁶U, ²³⁸U, ²³⁸Pu, ²⁴⁰Pu, and ²⁴²Pu are analyzed for photon energies below 7 MeV. Special features of various fission channels are assessed under the assumption that the fission barrier has a two-humped shape. It is shown that the maximum value of the relative orbital angular momentum L _m of fission fragments can be found upon taking into account deviations from the predictions of A. Bohr’s formula for the angular distributions of fission fragments. The result is L _m ≈ 30. The existence of an “isomeric shelf” for the angular distributions of fragments from ²³⁶U and ²³⁸U photofission in the low-energy region is confirmed.     

Collective clusterization in excited light nuclear systems

A new cluster decay process is proposed for the complex, intermediate mass fragments or “clusters” emitted in low energy nuclear reactions forming the excited light (A _CN ^* ～ 60) and medium mass (A _CN ^* ～ 110) nuclear systems. The complex fragments are shown to arise as multiple clusters of masses less than ～20 in medium mass nuclei or as complete mass spectra in light nuclei. For ¹¹⁶Ba^*, ¹²C decay is still shown to be a preferred decay. The calculations for fragment production cross sections and total kinetic energies of fragments are presented for reactions leading to hot ⁵⁶Ni and ¹¹⁶Ba nuclei.     

Electron impact-induced ionization and dissociation of the freon-12 molecule

An experimental technique is described, and the relative cross sections of the single and dissociative electron-impact ionizations of the freon-12 molecule (CCl₂F₂) in the near-threshold energy range are obtained. The experiment is performed on a device that provides the mass separation and recording of ions with a monopole mass spectrometer. The mass spectrum of the freon-12 molecule is measured at various ionizing-electron energies, and the relative cross sections of dissociative ionization are measured for the most intense ion fragments, including isotope-containing fragments. The threshold dependences of these cross sections are used to determine the appearance potentials of the ion fragments. The isotope shift in the thresh-old appearance energies of ion fragments [C³⁵ClF₂]⁺ and [C³⁷ClF₂]⁺ is measured for the first time.     

Correlation between fragment mass-distribution fine structure,charge distribution and nuclear structure for thermal-neutron-induced fission of 233U and 235U

Masses corresponding to observed fine-structure peaks in the fragment mass distributions for thermal-neutron-induced fission of ²³³U and ²³⁵U are shown to correspond to average measured masses for even-even nuclear charge splits. Evidence is presented that the yield enhancement for even-Z fragments is not restricted just to fission events with higher-than-average total kinetic energy. The anomalously high yield of fragments with mass 134 in ²³⁵U(n, f) as opposed to ²³³(n, f) is tentatively correlated with rapidly changing nuclear structure properties as a function of the mass of the complementary light (Z = 40) fragments.     

Fission and ternary cluster decay of hyper-deformed 56Ni

Coincidences between two heavy fragments have been measured from the fission of ⁵⁶Ni compound nuclei formed in the ³²S + ²⁴Mg reaction at E _lab( ^32S ) = 165.4 MeV. A unique experimental set-up consisting of two large-area position-sensitive (x, y) gas detector telescopes has been used allowing the complete determination of the observed fragments and their momentum vectors. In addition to binary fission events with subsequent particle evaporation, narrow out-of-plane correlations are observed for two fragments emitted in purely binary events and in events with a missing charge consisting of 2α - and 3α -particles (¹²C). These events are interpreted as ternary cluster decay from ⁵⁶Ni nuclei at high angular momenta through hyper-deformed shapes.     

The ablation stage in the fast abrasion model

In order to verify the effect of the ablation stage on the fast abrasion mechanism, detailed evaporative calculations have been performed on the primary projectile and target-like fragments issued from the reactions⁴⁰Ar+²⁷Al and⁴⁰Ca+²⁷Al. The results account for many of the experimental features observed in the projectile and target-like fragments produced at intermediate energies. However it is pointed out that, in order to get a better agreement between theory and experimental data, the primary projectile and target-like fragments should carry a more substantial excitation energy than predicted by a purely geometric abrasion model.     

Correlation phenomena in the fragmentation of 32s-induced reactions

Fragmentation data from the reactions ³²S + ²⁸Si, ⁴⁰Ca, ⁵⁸Ni at 10 MeV/u are used to deduce the scission configurations. Assuming three fragments the possible scission configurations are expanded into two basic configurations (closed and stretched configurations) which can be distinguished by means of the relative fragment momenta. The majority of the analyzed reactions is in agreement with the assumption of random fragmentation. However, in a few reactions consisting of one heavy and two light fragments the fragmentation appears to pass through the closed configuration, whereas the stretched configuration is formed in reactions containing one light and two heavy fragments.     

Core-breakup reactions of the halo nuclei 11Be and 11Li: momentum distributions and shadow effects

The halo nuclei ¹¹Be and ¹¹Li have been studied in core-breakup reactions where the halo neutrons are expected to be released without a major distortion due to the reaction. The widths of the halo-neutron momentum distributions have been extracted in coincidence with He fragments, Γ = 32 ± 4 MeV/c, and Li fragments, Γ = 42 ± 4 MeV/c for ¹¹Be and with He fragments, Γ = 42 ± 6 MeV/c for ¹¹Li. The ¹¹Be breakup gives a very low neutron multiplicity of 0.38±0.09 which is a manifestation of the shadowing of the neutron in the core-breakup reaction. This value can be understood from a simple theoretical calculation, which also accounts for the observed transverse momentum widths at small angles.