In the EXILL campaign a highly efficient array of high purity germanium (HPGe) detectors was operated at the cold neutron beam facility PF1B of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) to carry out nuclear structure studies, via measurements of γ-rays following neutron-induced capture and fission reactions. The setup consisted of a collimation system producing a pencil beam with a thermal capture equivalent flux of about 108 n s−1cm−2 at the target position and negligible neutron halo. The target was surrounded by an array of eight to ten anti-Compton shielded EXOGAM Clover detectors, four to six anti-Compton shielded large coaxial GASP detectors and two standard Clover detectors. For a part of the campaign the array was combined with 16 LaBr3:(Ce) detectors from the FATIMA collaboration. The detectors were arranged in an array of rhombicuboctahedron geometry, providing the possibility to carry out very precise angular correlation and directional-polarization correlation measurements. The triggerless acquisition system allowed a signal collection rate of up to 6 × 105 Hz. The data allowed to set multi-fold coincidences to obtain decay schemes and in combination with the FATIMA array of LaBr3:(Ce) detectors to analyze half-lives of excited levels in the pico- to microsecond range. Precise energy and efficiency calibrations of EXILL were performed using standard calibration sources of 133Ba, 60Co and 152Eu as well as data from the reactions 27Al(n,γ)28Al and 35Cl(n,γ)36Cl in the energy range from 30 keV up to 10 MeV.

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The multiplicities of prescission protons and n particles in the reaction ' F+ Th at 104, 110, 116, and 118 MeV have been measured. The observed multiplicities are much larger than the prediction of the statistical model without the introduction of fission delay. An analysis of the prescission proton and u data along with that for neutrons (measured earlier) has been made using deformed optical model and deformation-dependent particle binding energies. Simultaneous fits to the charged particle and neutron data required a total fission time scale in the range of (25 -80)X 10 ' s. For this system, the mean kinetic energies of the prescission particles are insensitive to the division of the total delay time into presaddle and postsaddle components; however, the neutron and charged particle multiplicity data are sensitive to the deformation of the saddle-to-scission emitter.The analysis shows that postsaddle emission takes place close to the scission point. PACS number(s): 25.70.Jj, 25.85.6e

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In the present work we have measured fission fragment angular distributions and fusion excitation functions for the systems 12 C, 16 Oϩ 232 Th at energies around the Coulomb barrier. These results along with the results of our earlier measurements on 19 F ϩ 232 Th system were analyzed following Hinde et al. ͓Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 1295 ͑1995͔͒ where it was pointed out that the anomalous fission fragment angular distributions seen in heavy ion reactions below the Coulomb barrier can be due to possible occurrence of quasifission events caused by the interaction of the projectile with the tip of the deformed target nucleus. The present data do not show the expected saturation behavior of the fission fragment anisotropy at sub-barrier energies for the 12 Cϩ 232 Th system which exhibits different behavior of the fission fragment anisotropy in the sub-barrier region as compared to the other two systems. The present measurements using different projectiles on the same target nucleus do not seem to conform to the expected behavior of the quasifission mechanism to be caused by the interaction of the projectile with the tip of the deformed target nucleus.

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