Isotope Distributions in the Reaction of ${}^{238}U$ with ${}^{238}U$

14 August 1978

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 41 (7), 469-472
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.41.469

Abstract

Radiochemically determined cross sections

σ (Z, A)

were used to construct charge and mass distributions for the reaction of 1785-MeV

{}^{238}U

ions with thick

{}^{238}U

targets. Fission of the colliding nuclei is found to dominate. For the surviving uraniumlike fragments an enhancement of yields compared to the Kr + U and Xe + U reactions is observed. The formation of heavy actinides is shown to be associated with the low-energy tails of the broad excitation energy distributions in damped collisions.

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Isotope Distributions in the Reaction of ${}^{238}U$ with ${}^{238}U$