Ternary fission within statistical approach

Binary reaction decays fromMg24+C12

“…5 6. Gated γ -ray spectra, using fragment-fragment-γ -ray coincidences, measured for the 16 Fig. 5) with 24 Mg (Z = 12 gate marked in Fig.…”

“…3. The full details of the identified γ -ray transitions are given in Table I. effects, the α-like 12 C, 16 O, 20 Ne, 24 Mg, and 28 Si nuclei are preferentially populated compared to the odd Z nuclei. This strong odd-even effect is a characteristic behavior of structure phenomena in 12 C + 24 Mg orbiting [44] that may still survive at E lab = 130 MeV.…”

“…5). Other well-defined Z gates can be used for the processing of the γ -ray spectra in coincidence with the 12 C, 16 O, 20 Ne, and 28 Si nuclei of interest. Although mass identification has not been available in this experiment, i.e., the performance of the VIVITRON pulsing system was not better than 2 ns (full width at half maximum, FWHM), the good energy resolution along with Z identification allowed the different reaction mechanisms to be clearly discriminated.…”

“…Although mass identification has not been available in this experiment, i.e., the performance of the VIVITRON pulsing system was not better than 2 ns (full width at half maximum, FWHM), the good energy resolution along with Z identification allowed the different reaction mechanisms to be clearly discriminated. Figure 4 illustrates a typical example of a two-dimensional angle vs energy spectrum for the 16 O + 20 Ne exit channel. The six regions (a)-(f) have been defined as a function of the inelasticity of the reaction channel from the groundstate Q value E * = 0 to full damping with E * larger than 15 MeV.…”

“…Of particular interest is the relationship between superdeformation (SD) and nuclear molecules, since nuclear shapes with major-to-minor axis ratios of 2:1 have the typical ellipsoidal elongation (with quadrupole deformation parameter β 2 ≈ 0.6) for light nuclei [11]. Furthermore, the structure of possible octupole-unstable 3:1 nuclear shapes (with β 2 ≈ 0.9)-hyperdeformation (HD)-for actinide nuclei has also been widely discussed [11,[14][15][16][17] in terms of clustering phenomena.…”