Inelastic and multi-nucleon transfer reactions between a 238 U beam, accelerated at 6.14 MeV/u, and a 12 C target were used for the production of neutron-rich, fissioning systems from U to Cm. A Si telescope, devoted to the detection of the target-like nuclei, provided a characterization of the fissioning systems in atomic and mass numbers, as well as in excitation energy. Cross-sections, angular and excitation-energy distributions were measured for the inelastic and transfer channels. Possible excitations of the target-like nuclei were experimentally investigated for the first time, by means of γ-ray measurements. The decays from the first excited states of 12 C, 11 B and 10 Be were observed with probabilities of 0.12 -0.14, while no evidence for the population of higher-lying states was found. Moreover, the fission probabilities of 238 U, 239 Np and 240,241,242 Pu and 244 Cm were determined as a function of the excitation energy.
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