Evidence of microscopic effects in fragment mass distribution in heavy ion induced fusion-fission reactions

摘要

Our measurements of variances (sigma(m)(2)) in mass distributions of fission fragments from fusion-fission reactions of light projectiles (C, O and F) on deformed thorium targets exhibit a sharp anomalous increase with energy near the Coulomb barrier, in contrast to the smooth variation of sigma(m)(2) for the spherical bismuth target. This departure from expectation based on a statistical description is explained in terms of microscopic effects arising from the orientational dependence in the case of deformed thorium targets. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.