Production cross section and decay study of $^{243}$Es and $^{249}$Md

Autor: Briselet, R., Theisen, Ch., Vandebrouck, M., Marchix, A., Airiau, M., Auranen, K., Badran, H., Boilley, D., Calverley, T., Cox, D., Déchery, F., Bisso, F. Defranchi, Drouart, A., Gall, B., Goigoux, T., Grahn, T., Greenlees, P. T., Hauschild, K., Herzan, A., Herzberg, R. D., Jakobsson, U., Julin, R., Juutinen, S., Konki, J., Leino, M., Lightfoot, A., Lopez-Martens, A., Mistry, A., Nieminen, P., Pakarinen, J., Papadakis, P., Partanen, J., Peura, P., Rahkila, P., Rubert, J., Ruotsalainen, P., Sandzelius, M., Saren, J., Scholey, C., Sorri, J., Stolze, S., Sulignano, B., Uusitalo, J., Ward, A., Zielińska, M.
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. C 99, 024614 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.99.024614
Popis: In the study of the odd-$Z$, even-$N$ nuclei $^{243}$Es and $^{249}$Md, performed at the University of Jyv\"askyl\"a, the fusion-evaporation reactions $^{197}$Au($^{48}$Ca,2$n$)$^{243}$Es and $^{203}$Tl($^{48}$Ca,2$n$)$^{249}$Md have been used for the first time. Fusion-evaporation residues were selected and detected using the RITU gas-filled separator coupled with the focal-plane spectrometer GREAT. For $^{243}$Es, the recoil decay correlation analysis yielded a half-life of $24 \pm 3$s, and a maximum production cross section of $37 \pm 10$ nb. In the same way, a half-life of $26 \pm 1$ s, an $\alpha$ branching ratio of 75 $\pm$ 5%, and a maximum production cross section of 300 $\pm$ 80 nb were determined for $^{249}$Md. The decay properties of $^{245}$Es, the daughter of $^{249}$Md, were also measured: an $\alpha$ branching ratio of 54 $\pm$ 7% and a half-life of 65 $\pm$ 6 s. Experimental cross sections were compared to the results of calculations performed using the KEWPIE2 statistical fusion-evaporation code.
Databáze: arXiv