INFLUENCE OF SHELL STRUCTURE ON DEEP INELASTIC COLLISIONS
- Received Date: 1900-01-01
- Accepted Date: 1900-01-01
- Available Online: 1983-06-05
Abstract: A kinematically complete study of the symmetric systems 154Sm+154Sm and 144Sm+144Sm has been performed at energies 30% in excess of the interaction barrier. They have been chosen because of their different internal structure: 144Sm has a closed N=82 neutron shell and hence a spherical ground state confighration; 154Sm with ten neutrons outside this shell is strongly deformed. Over the whole range of kinetic energy loss the variances of the measured mass distributions were found to be similar in both reactions, whereas the variances of the element distributions are considerably larger at small energy losses in the 144Sm system. Based on the shell-corrected potential energy surface these observations are attributed to the closed N=82 neutron shell which, for 144Sm, hinders the neutron exchange and leads to a preferential transfer of protons.