Abstract
The effect on fission fragment anisotropies of the alignment of ground-state nuclear spin with the nuclear deformation axis has been investigated for the reactions 31P+ 176Lu and 29Si+ 178Hf, through measurements at a range of energies spanning the fusion barrier. Calculations which reproduce the anisotropies for the 29Si+ 178Hf reaction only reproduce the anisotropies for 31P+ 176Lu when the correlation of the seven units of ground-state spin of 176Lu with the nuclear deformation axis is correctly taken into account.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 044601 |
| Pages (from-to) | 446011-4460111 |
| Number of pages | 4014101 |
| Journal | Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2002 |