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A feasibility study of two-neutron transfer reactions, using 12C and 19F targets, was performed. In this experiment, a 6He beam at 20 MeV incident energy was delivered by the RIBRAS facility. The main goal of this work was to test the RIBRAS system, operated in a single-solenoid mode, to investigate (6He,α) reactions in light nuclei. The excitation function of the 14C nucleus, populated by the 12C(6He,α) reaction, was extracted from the data. Evidence of nn-transfer reactions populating the ground state and the first 0 1 + state in 14C were observed. However, the present spectrum might have contribution from other reaction channels such as the 6He breakup. Future experiments with the RIBRAS dual-solenoid mode will improve the quality of the data by reducing a significant amount of background.

In this paper we discuss new experimental data on the one-proton transfer reaction 32S(3He, d)33Cl* at 9.68 MeV bombarding energy. An enriched 32S target and a high-granularity hodoscope were used to obtain data for proton transfer reactions to bound and unbound states in 33Cl. Angular distributions were interpreted by means of finite-range DWBA and coupled-channel calculations. The obtained spectroscopic factors have been compared with previous results reported in the literature and with shell model calculations.

An overview of the experiments performed at RIBRAS over the last year is presented. Elastic scattering and breakup reactions induced by light exotic projectiles on different targets have been measured and some results are presented here for the 120Sn(6He, α) reaction. Resonant scattering experiments have been performed with 10Be and 12C secondary beams on a CH2 thick target and the well known 12C+p resonance was identified. A gamma-particle experiment using a new system of LYSO scintillators to detect gammas was done.

In this work we present an elastic scattering angular distribution for the 8Li+58Ni system measured at Elab = 26.1 MeV. The 8Li beam was produced in the Radioactive Ion Beams in Brasil (RIBRAS) facility using the 7Li primary beam delivered by the 8-UD Pelletron accelerator. The angular distribution covers the angular range from 20 to 85 degrees in the center of mass frame. The data have been analysed by optical model and coupled channels calculations, including couplings to low-lying states in 8Li and the spin-orbit interaction. Our results indicate that the inclusion of the spin-orbit interaction in the calculations is important to describe the data at backward angles.

An optical model analysis of 6He+9Be elastic scattering angular distributions at two energies above the Coulomb barrier is presented. A cluster model is used for the projectile- target optical potential which is decomposed into two components, the alpha-target and the 2n-target interactions. The 2n-target is adjusted to fit the data and a long range imaginary part is obtained.

In earlier works, the fusion cross section for the 16O+16O reaction has been measured using different techniques. In the present work, we have obtained an experimental excitation function for 16O+16O using γ-ray spectroscopy. The measurements were performed at center-of-mass energies between 8.28 and 12.25 MeV. The theoretical predictions obtained with a coupled-channel model are consistent with the experimental data. From our analyses, the extrapolated S-factor value at 6.6 MeV, corresponding to the Gamow peak energy for core oxygen burning conditions, is about 3.6 × 1025 MeV barn.

We discuss evidences of strong cluster structures observed in nuclear reactions even at quite high excitation energies. The oscillatory angular distributions of the elastic scattering of the 12C+28Si system measured at 13 energies close to the Coulomb barrier were reproduced introducing in the scattering S-matrix additional Regge-pole form terms. These poles were interpreted as describing doorway states with 12C+28Si cluster structure in the composite nucleus 40Ca. The excitation energies of these states indicate that they can be part of a rotational band in 40Ca, together with similar states observed in the elastic scattering and α-transfer reactions of the 16O+24Mg system. We propose that the presently observed, largely deformed molecular band corresponds to the hyper-deformed band in 40Ca, which has been found in a new Nilsson-model-calculation, which predicts preference of the 12C + 28Si and 16O + 24Mg molecular structures, in accordance with our present results.

RIBRAS, Radioactive Ion beam in Brasil, is a system based on superconducting solenoids which can produce low energy RNB (Radioactive Nuclear Beams) at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Secondary radioactive beams of light particles such as 6He, 7Be and 8Li have been produced and low energy elastic scattering and transfer reaction experiments have been performed. The recent scientific program using this facility includes elastic scattering and transfer reactions of 6He halo nucleus on 9Be, 27Al, 51V and 120Sn targets and 8Li on 9Be, 12C and 51V targets. The total reaction cross section as a function of energy has been extracted from the elastic scattering data and the role of breakup of weakly bound or exotic nuclei is discussed. Also spectroscopic factors have been obtained from the transfer reactions.

The hyperdeformed state of the 36Ar nucleus is discussed, including its prediction from alpha-cluster and binary cluster studies, via its experimental verification from heavy-ion resonances up to its derivation from Nilsson-model calculations. Its possible clusterizations are also investigated both from the microscopic structure and from the energetic preference viewpoint.

Shape isomers, including superdeformed and hyperderformed states can be determined from the quasi-dynamical SU(3) symmetry based on the Nilsson-model. We investigate the possible binary clusterizations of these shape isomers. The allowed cluster-configurations give a hint for the favourable reaction channels for populating these states. Our semimicroscopic approach is largely based on symmetry considerations, combined with energetic preference calculations. As illustrative examples some results for the 36Ar, 40Ca and 56Ni nuclei are shown.

The strongly oscillating angular distributions of the elastic scattering of 12C + 24Mg at energies around the Coulomb barrier (Ecm = 10.67 − 16.00 MeV) [1] were reproduced adding three Breit-Wigner resonance terms with J values of 6, 7 and 8 h respectively to the l = 6, 7 and 8 terms of the elastic S-matrix. The elastic scattering S-matrix was calculated using the double folding, deep, optical potential with non-local interaction, also called, Sao Paulo Potential [2]. All fifteen angular distributions could be well reproduced by the 3 resonances, located respectively at Ecm = 14.15, 15.8 and 16.9 MeV in the entrance channel, which correspond to excitation energies of 30.45, 32.1 and 33.2 MeV in the 36Ar compound nucleus. The J = 6, 7 and 8 h resonances fit well into a rotational molecular band, together with the J = 18, 20, 22 and 24 h resonances observed in the 16O + 20Ne elastic scattering [3]. The band head is at 29.5 MeV excitation energy in the 36Ar compound nucleus and has a large moment of inertia indicating a large deformation. Calculations of Rae and Merchant [4] propose the existence of a hyperdeformed band in 36Ar with 12C + 24Mg and 16O + 20Ne cluster structure.