https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111713003
Fusion reactions with the one-neutron halo nucleus 15C
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Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA
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Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
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Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
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e-mail: malcorta@anl.gov
We have for the first time studied the fusion-fission excitation functions for the systems 14,15C + 232Th at energies in the vicinity of the Coulomb barrier. At energies below the barrier, the fusion cross section of the halo nucleus 15C showed an enhancement by a factor of 2-5, while the fusion cross section for 14C shows a similar trend to that of 12,13C.
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