Physics Letters B (Nov 2024)

Production of neutron-rich nuclei in the vicinity of 78Ni: Fragmentation reactions of unstable 81Ga and 82Ge beams

  • X.H. Sun,
  • H. Wang,
  • K. Yoneda,
  • N. Aoi,
  • H. Baba,
  • P. Bednarczyk,
  • Zs. Dombrádi,
  • P. Doornenbal,
  • Zs. Fülöp,
  • S. Go,
  • T. Hashimoto,
  • E. Ideguchi,
  • K. Kobayashi,
  • Y. Kondo,
  • J. Lee,
  • H.N. Liu,
  • W.P. Liu,
  • J.L. Lou,
  • M. Matsushita,
  • R. Minakata,
  • T. Motobayashi,
  • D. Nishimura,
  • H. Otsu,
  • H. Sakurai,
  • Y. Shiga,
  • Y.P. Shen,
  • D. Sohler,
  • D. Steppenbeck,
  • Y.L. Sun,
  • S. Takeuchi,
  • A. Tamii,
  • R. Tanaka,
  • Z.Y. Tian,
  • Zs. Vajta,
  • T. Yamamoto,
  • X.F. Yang,
  • Z.H. Yang,
  • Y.L. Ye,
  • R. Yokoyama,
  • J. Zenihiro

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 858
p. 139081

Abstract

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The fragmentation reactions of neutron-rich unstable nuclei 81Ga and 82Ge at 250 MeV/nucleon have been studied in order to search the optimal mean for the production of very neutron-rich nuclei in the vicinity of 78Ni. The newly measured cross sections were compared with various calculations, showing a good agreement with EPAX3.01. The present work provides experimental insights into the two-step scheme—fragmentation following fission—as a method to produce very neutron-rich nuclei through a combination of ISOL and fragmentation of post-accelerated beams of unstable nuclei. Our results enable an evaluation of the potential of the two-step scheme in the production of very neutron-rich nuclei for the 78Ni region. The two-step scheme using fragmentation of a post-accelerated 81Ga beam could be an option to produce neutron-rich nuclei around 78Ni when the 81Ga beam intensity reaches 1.0×108 pps, compared to the one-step scheme with fission of 238U.

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