Evidence of a new shell closed nucleus governing slow quasi-fission

Autor: Pal, A., Santra, S., Kundu, A., Chattopadhyay, D., Rout, P. C., Gandhi, Ramandeep, Patil, P. N., Tripathi, R., Roy, B. J., Sawant, Y., Nag, T. N., Baishya, Abhijit, Santhosh, T., Rath, P. K., Deshmukh, N.
Rok vydání: 2022
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Mass distributions of fission fragments arising from the slow quasi-fission process have been derived by comparing the measured distributions with the theoretical distributions based on compound nuclear fission model for several reactions. The mass-distributions corresponding to quasi-fission events for all the systems show the following common features: (1) they are double peaked with fixed peak-centroids and nearly same width at different incident energies, (2) the yield of quasi-fission events decreases with the increasing projectile energy, and (3) peak corresponding to lighter fragment is observed at A $\sim$ 96 for all the systems, whereas the peak of heavier fragment increases linearly with the mass of the di-nuclear system. All the above observations are quite similar to the ones observed in well known asymmetric fission of actinides, thus providing clear evidences of shell effect in slow quasi-fission where the lighter fragment is possibly nuclei around $^{96}$Zr, a new doubly magic nucleus. This finding has great implications in the study of nuclear reactions, structure and particularly in super-heavy element synthesis where quasi-fission is synonymous.
Databáze: arXiv