Fusion of 8He with 206Pb around Coulomb barrier energies

Abstract

The experimental study of the fusion of light neutron-rich nucleus 8He with 206Pb is reported in this work. A fusion stack of 206Pb targets has been used for this study. The most prominent evaporation residue (210Po), which has half-life of 138 days and decays by alpha emission, is populated in the reaction. Radiochemical analysis technique is used to extract the yield of this evaporation residue. © Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2011 ; This work was partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) under projects FPA2007-63074 (FINURA) and INGENIO-2010 (CPAN). It has also been supported by the European Union "SPIRAL2 preparatory phase" Grant agreement 212692, through the FP7 European program ; Peer Reviewed