Investigation of Nuclear Deformation in Excited 213Fr
- Received Date: 2000-06-22
- Accepted Date: 1900-01-01
- Available Online: 2001-07-05
Abstract: Angular correlations between γ rays and fission fragments were measured for the reaction 16O+197Au at 132MeV. The probability of giant dipole resonance γ rays emission relative to the spin axis of the compound system was extracted by using the correlations,which give direct information about nuclear deformation. Large anisotropy observed in the γ rays energy region of the compound nucleus giant dipole resonance demonstrates unambiguously a deformed shape of the 213Fr compound system at excitation energies of 92MeV. The fission coincidence γ ray spectra were fitted consistently in terms of the statistical γ ray decay of the compound system and excited fission fragments. The giant dipole resonance parameters obtained from the fits were then used to compute the γ ray angular distributions with respect to the compound nucleus spin axis for prolate and oblate shapes. The comparation between the calculation and the experimental results at excitation of 92MeV show that the 213Fr nucleus is in the transition from a collective prolate to a noncollective oblate shape.