Quasifission processes in<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">Ca</mml:mi><mml:mprescripts/><mml:none/><mml:mrow><mml:mn>40</mml:mn><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mn>48</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">Sm</mml:mi><mml:mprescripts/><mml:none/><mml:mrow><mml:mn>144</mml:mn><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mn>154</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:mmultiscripts></mml:mrow></mml:math>reactions
Abstract
Mass-energy and angular distributions of fission fragments for the $^{48}\mathrm{Ca}+^{144,154}\mathrm{Sm}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}^{192,202}\mathrm{Pb}$, $^{40}\mathrm{Ca}+^{154}\mathrm{Sm}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}^{194}\mathrm{Pb}$ reactions have been measured. Fusion suppression and the presence of quasifission at energies near and below the Coulomb barrier have been observed for the reactions with the deformed target $^{154}\mathrm{Sm}$. In the case of the spherical $^{144}\mathrm{Sm}$ target no evidence of quasifission has been found. Quasifission cross sections have been extracted from total fission-like events by analysis of their mass and angular distributions.