D. D. Bogdanov

The Vassilissa facility for electrostatic separation and study of complete fusion reaction products

Abstract The Vassilissa facility is described. The main component is an electrostatic separator of complete-fusion reaction products from the ion beam. The facility is capable of transmitting recoil nuclei emitted by the target in the beam direction within a solid angle of 10 −2 sr and has a ± 10% spread in energy and ionic charge. The time required to transport the nuclei to the detectors is 3 × 10 −6 s The separation of scattered ions is performed using a system of three electrostatic condensers. Separation factors obtained for Ar, P and Ne are equal to 10 10 , 10 11 and 10 12 , respectively.

Evidences for resonance states in 5H

Resonance states of H-5 were investigated through the two-neutron transfer reaction t(t, P)(5) H. A triton beam at 57.5 MeV and a cryogenic liquid tritium target were used. The H-5 missing mass spectrum in triple coincidence, proton + triton + neutron, shows a resonance at 1.8 +/- 0.1 MeV above the t + 2n decay threshold. This energy is in good agreement with the result reported in Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 092501. The resonance width, Gamma(intr) less than or equal to 0.5 MeV, is surprisingly small and difficult to reconcile with theory predictions

24.5 A MeV 6He+p elastic and inelastic scattering

The structure of 6 He is explored with proton elastic and inelastic scattering to the first 2 + excited state (Q =− 1. 8M eV) of 6 He in the inverse kinematics using a 24.5 A MeV 6 He beam. The distorted wave approximation (DWA) with an optical potential obtained by folding an effective nucleon–nucleon (NN) g-matrix with the 6 He density matrix elements as given by a large basis shell model is used to analyse the data. The comparison of predictions with the data confirms the view that 6 He has

Status of ACCULINNA beam line

AbstractTheseparatorACCULINNAwasupgradedtoachievenewexperimentalrequirements.Thebeamlinewasextendedbynewion-opticalelementsbeyondthecyclotronhall.Thenewarrangementsyieldmuchbetterbackgroundcondi-tions.Theintensitiesof 6 Heand 8 Heradioactivebeamsproducedinfragmentationof35AMeV 11 Bionswereincreaseduptoafactorof10.Theupgradedbeamlinewasusedinexperimentstostudythe 5 Hresonancestatespopulatedinthet þt reaction.Acryogenicliquidtritiumtargetwasdesignedandinstalledattheseparatorbeamline. 2002ElsevierScienceB.V.Allrightsreserved. PACS:25.70.Mn;29.25.RmKeywords:Radioactive ion beams;Productiontarget;Profileddegrader;Liquidtritiumtarget 1.IntroductionTheseparatorACCULINNA[1]isinoperationsince1996.Highintensityprimarybeamsof 7 Li, 11 B, 13 C, 15 Nand 18 Owithenergyvaluesrangingbetween32and50AMeVaredeliveredbytheU-400Mcyclotrontotheproductiontargetoftheseparator.Thesecondarybeamsof 6 Heand 8 Henucleiwithenergiesofabout25AMeVallowedustogainnewinsightsintothestructureofneutronhalonucleithroughthestudyofone-andtwo-neutrontransferreactionsmadewithhydrogenandheliumtargets[2–5].Suchbeamsofferfavor-ableconditionsfortheproductionofsofarun-knownparticle-unstablenucleibeyondtheneutrondripline.Forthispurposeonecoulduseone-stepone-proton and two-neutron transfer reactionsoccurringwheneither

Decay widths of highly excited Ra compound nuclei

Abstract Excitation functions were obtained for the x n, p x n and αx n decay channels of 216,218,220 Ra compound nuclei produced in the reactions 22 Ne+ 194,196,198 Pt in the excitation energy range of 40–160 MeV. Due to the employment of three platinum isotope targets, the cross section ratios were measured with a high degree of accuracy for evaporation reaction channels resulting in the formation of fixed cold products after the termination of evaporation cascades of a different numbers of stages. Experimental values for the reduced neutron widths of highly excited compound nuclei were obtained from the measured cross section ratios. Evaporation reaction cross sections were well described in the framework of the statistical model taking into account shell effects according to Ignatyuk. Our present, and also earlier, investigations showed that calculations making use of one single set of the model parameters (the scaling factor to the liquid-drop fission barrier of Cohen, Plasil and Swiatecki, C = 0.6–0.7 and the ratio of the level density parameters, a f a v = 1.0 ) reproduces correctly the cross sections of the evaporation reactions in a wide range of compound nuclei extending from Bi to U. Moreover, the measured cross section ratios are exceptionally sensitive to the value of the parameter a f a v , i.e. are very suitable for a high accuracy estimation of this value. By fitting two sets of the experimental data — the absolute cross section values and cross section ratios — we were able to independently estimate the values of two principal parameters of the model, C and a f a y . Our calculations showed that a large part of the pre-fission neutrons is evaporated by hot pre-actinide compound nuclei before they reach the saddle point (50 to 100% of the total number of pre-fission neutrons are pre-saddle).

Cross sections of 102 element isotopes formation in the reactions of22Ne+236U and26Mg+232Th

The production cross sections of the isotopes252102,253102, and254102 were measured for the heavy ion fusion reactions of22Ne+236U and26Mg+232Th by using the kinematic separator VASSILISSA. The obtained excitation functions and the maximum production cross sections are compared with the ones for more asymmetric reactions leading to the same compound nucleus258102. The experimental cross sections and the results of statistical model calculations are compared and discussed.

Resonance states of hydrogen nuclei 4H and 5H obtained in transfer reactions with exotic beams

Abstract Experimental search for 4 H and 5 H has been performed in the reactions 3 H(t,p) 5 H, 2 H( 6 He, 3 He) 5 H and 2 H(t,p) 4 H. A resonance state situated at 1.8±0.1 MeV above the t+n+n decay threshold is obtained in the missing mass energy spectrum of the 5 H nucleus. Also, there is an indication that another resonance located at 2.7±0.1 MeV presents in this spectrum. Visible peak widths are governed mostly by the instrumental resolution, which came to about 0.4 MeV. We set an upper limit of 0.5 MeV on the true width of any of the two states. The resonance state of 4 H with E res = 3.3 ± 0.2 MeV and Γ res = 4.1 ± 0.3 Mev was obtained in the 2 H(t,p) 4 H reaction.

The new isotopes223, 224U

In the heavy-ion complete fusion reaction208Pb+20Ne the new isotopes223,224U were produced. These nuclei were identified after in-flight separation with the kinematic separator VASSILISSA, followed by their implantation into a passivated ion implanted silicon detector and the observation of the genetic relationships of subsequent α-decays.223U was found to decay withEα=(8780±40) keV and T1/2=18−5+10μs. For224U the α-line atEα=(8470±15) keV and T1/2=0.7−0.2+0.5 ms was observed.

Spectroscopy of 7He and superheavy hydrogen isotope 5H

The neutron-transfer reaction d(6He, p)7He is investigated. The data obtained show that, in the range between 1 and 7 MeV above its ground-state resonance, 7He does not have well-pronounced narrow excited states with a single-particle structure. A resonance state of 5H with an energy of 2 MeV above the n+n+3H decay threshold is obtained for the first time by making use of the reaction p(6He, 2He)5H.

Large area high-efficiency time-of-flight system for detection of low energy heavy evaporation residues at the electrostatic separator VASSILISSA

Abstract A large-area thin timing detector for slow heavy nuclei was developed. The apparatus is based on the transport of secondary electrons by crossed electric and magnetic fields with subsequentamplification by micro-channel plate multipliers. To increase the registration efficiency secondary electrons are collected from the both sides of the emitter foil. An intrinsic time resolution of (380±30) ps and registration efficiency of (95±5)% were obtained for the single TOF detector using a 226 Ra α-source. A time resolution of (400±30) ps and registration efficiency close to 100% were measured for heavy ions for the single TOF detector. A time-of-flight system consisting of two such detectors is extensively used in the experiments with heavy nuclei at the kinematic separator VASSILISSA [1,2].