https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2012-12159-5
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Compound nucleus evaporative decay as a probe for the isospin dependence of the level density
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Universitá di Napoli “Federico II”, Via Cinthia, 80126, Napoli, Italy
2
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Firenze, Italy
3
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and Dipartimento di Fisica, Padova, Italy
4
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Via Cinthia, 80126, Napoli, Italy
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Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro dell’Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Legnaro, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Padova, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and Dipartimento di Fisica, Firenze, Italy
* e-mail: moro@na.infn.it
Received:
16
July
2012
Revised:
10
October
2012
Accepted:
11
October
2012
Published online:
27
November
2012
The evaporative decay of the compound nucleus 139Eu produced by the 180MeV 32S + 107Ag reaction was studied with the aim to test the empirical isospin expressions of the level density, recently appeared in the literature. We measured light charged particle spectra and angular correlations in coincidence with the evaporation residues and the invariant velocity distribution of the evaporation residues. In addition, an independent experiment was performed on the reaction 32S + 109Ag at the same incident energy. Evaporation residue angular distribution was measured and the fusion-evaporation cross-section was determined. All the measured quantities are compared with the predictions of different level density prescriptions: a) isospin independence, b) a dependence from N - Z and c) a dependence from Z-Z0 as proposed by Al-Quraishi et al. Results show that the predictions of the Z-Z0 dependence are far off the experimental data for all the measured observables. Regarding the isospin independent prescription and the N - Z dependence, although no great differences appear between their predictions the N - Z prescription seems to better describe the experimental data.
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