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Hauptverfasser: Buete, J., Swinton-Bland, B. M. A., Hinde, D. J., Cook, K. J., Dasgupta, M., Berriman, A. C., Jeung, D. Y., Banerjee, K., Bezzina, L. T., Carter, I. P., Sengupta, C., Simenel, C., Simpson, E. C.
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23681
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  • We present the results of a broad, systematic study of heavy-ion induced fission mass distributions for every even-Z compound nucleus ($Z_\mathrm{CN}$) from $^{144}$Gd to $^{212}$Th. We find systematic evidence of shell-driven structure in every fission mass distribution. The change in shape of the mass distributions with $Z_\mathrm{CN}$ is consistent with the results of quantitative simultaneous fitting in mass and total kinetic energy, demonstrating that fragment proton shell gaps at $Z_\mathrm{FF} = 34, 36$ and $Z_\mathrm{FF} = 44, 46$ are \textit{both} major drivers of fission mass distributions below the actinide region. The mass distributions show enhanced yields at mass symmetry for values of $Z_\mathrm{CN}$ equal to two times these favoured $Z_\mathrm{FF}$ values. Thus, the same shell gaps that are drivers of mass-asymmetric fission also affect mass distributions at and near mass-symmetry. For all systems a second, more mass-asymmetric, fission mode is required to fit the fission mass distributions. If driven by a single shell gap, it appears to be in the light fragment around $Z_\mathrm{FF} = 28, 30$.