title: Pathway for the Production of Neutron-Rich Isotopes around the N=126 Shell Closure.
abstract: Absolute cross sections for isotopically identified products formed in multinucleon transfer in the (136)Xe+(198)Pt system at ∼8  MeV/nucleon are reported. The isotopic distributions obtained using a large acceptance spectrometer demonstrated the production of the "hard-to-reach" neutron-rich isotopes for Z<78 around the N=126 shell closure far from stability. The main contribution to the formation of these exotic nuclei is shown to arise in collisions with a small kinetic energy dissipation. The present experimental finding corroborates for the first time recent predictions that multinucleon transfer reactions would be the optimum method to populate and characterize neutron-rich isotopes around N=126 which are crucial for understanding both astrophysically relevant processes and the evolution of "magic" numbers far from stability.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan.
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authors.affiliation: Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea.|Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea.|Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea.|Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon 34047, Korea.
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