1. Asymmetric fission around lead: The case of Po198
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D. Arora, Kavita Rani, Arka Chatterjee, Devinder Kaur, S. K. Duggi, Gurwinder Kaur, Honey Arora, Shilpi Gupta, Louise Stuttge, C. Schmitt, Vivek Mishra, K. S. Golda, M. S. A. Kumar, A. K. Shrivastava, Akhil Jhingan, K. Chauhan, P. N. Patil, P. Sugathan, N. Saneesh, K. Mahata, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[PHYS]Physics [physics] ,Physics ,Fusion ,[PHYS.NUCL]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Theory [nucl-th] ,Distribution (number theory) ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Fission ,Nuclear Theory ,Function (mathematics) ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Kinetic energy ,01 natural sciences ,Interpretation (model theory) ,0103 physical sciences ,Atomic physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Energy (signal processing) ,Excitation - Abstract
Asymmetric low-energy fission of neutron-deficient nuclei around lead is addressed with the measurement of fragment mass and total kinetic energy properties for the fissioning system $^{198}\mathrm{Po}$ produced in heavy-ion fusion. Interpretation of the measurement for such a transitional nucleus at finite excitation energy is challenging. The presence of asymmetric partitions is suggested by the observed weak dependence of the total kinetic energy on mass and by the nonmonotonic evolution of the fragment-mass distribution width with excitation energy. The interpretation is supported by microscopic model calculations as well as by the results of an advanced semiempirical code. Combined with previous experiments in the region, the present measurement contributes to establish the evolution of the fragment-mass distribution as a function of the fissioning system. The connection between the ``new'' and the ``old'' islands of asymmetric fission is discussed.
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- 2019
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