Speaker
Description
With the present Letter of Intent we propose to measure the production yield of nuclei in the region of
238U via the 238U+124Sn multinucleon transfer reaction, by using the PRISMA+AGATA+DANTE set-up.
Special efforts will be made to get direct information on the mass and charge distributions of heavy transfer products in a region where fission processes are dominant. To this purpose, besides the A, Z, Q-value
distributions of the target-like reaction products detected in PRISMA, we will employ a high resolution kinematic coincidence to extract light-heavy mass-mass correlations and the transfer induced fission probability.
Heavy Z partners will be partly identified via X-ray coincidences. Direct heavy mass identification will be
also attempted via a detailed study of the shape of the mass distributions, following the ongoing analysis
of the very recently performed 208Pb+130Te experiment. By a cross comparison of all this information we
should be able to define at best the A, Z yields of heavy partners. The results will provide valuable inputs
for a variety of studies whose feasibility requires knowledge of the population yields of nuclear species
produced via transfer mechanism and differing by a substantial amount of protons and neutrons from 238U
