Direct Evidence of Washing out of Nuclear Shell Effects
Nuclear Experiment
2016-11-06 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Constraining excitation energy at which nuclear shell effect washes out has important implications on the production of super heavy elements and many other fields of nuclear physics research. We report the fission fragment mass distribution in alpha induced reaction on an actinide target for wide excitation range in close energy interval and show direct evidence that nuclear shell effect washes out at excitation energy ~40 MeV. Calculation shows that second peak of the fission barrier also vanishes around similar excitation energy.
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@article{arxiv.1504.04447,
title = {Direct Evidence of Washing out of Nuclear Shell Effects},
author = {A. Chaudhuri and T. K. Ghosh and K. Banerjee and S. Bhattacharya and Jhilam Sadhukhan and C. Bhattacharya and S. Kundu and J. K. Meena and G. Mukherjee and R. Pandey and T. K. Rana and P. Roy and T. Roy and V. Srivastava and P. Bhattacharya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.04447},
year = {2016}
}
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7 pages, 7 figures, Physical Review C (in press)