Abstract: Abstract Fusion-fission products have been studied for three reactions: Ar + Au, Ar + Bi and Ar + U (5.25–7.5 MeV/u). By measuring symmetric fragmentation components (fission-like events), cross sections for fusion were deduced and compared with the predictions of static and dynamic models. With increasing projectile energy, the width of the mass distributions strongly increases for the two lighter systems. By contrast, for Ar + U it remains essentially constant at a very large value. These results clearly demonstrate that the large increase ...
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Nuclear physics
Atomic physics