EPJ Web of Conferences 17, 16008 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111716008

Exploring the onset of quasifission by measurement of mass distribution in ¹⁹F+¹⁸⁴W

¹ Inter University Accelerator Centre, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, Post Box 10502, New Delhi 110067, India
² Department of Nuclear Physics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 503003, India
³ Department of Physics, Calicut University, Calicut 673635, India
⁴ Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Delhi University, Delhi 110007, India
⁵ Department of Physics, Karnatak University, Dharwad 580003, India

^a e-mail: subir@iuac.res.in

Abstract

Fission fragment mass distributions for ¹⁹F+¹⁸⁴W have been measured at beam energies in the range of 85 - 125 MeV. Analysis of mass distribution width indicates that the system proceeds towards the formation of compound nucleus. No signature of quasifission is observed in this reaction. These results strengthen the conclusions of our earlier works revealing the stabilizing effect of the Z = 82 shell closure against fission.