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Physics Letters B

Volume 70, Issue 3, 10 October 1977, Pages 289-291
Physics Letters B

Measurements of the fusion of 12C + 14N and the liquid-drop limit for 26Al

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Abstract

A measurement of the cross section for the fusion of 14N + 12C has been made at a 14N bombarding energy of 248 MeV. The observed value of 717 ± 85 mb is significantly smaller than the value of 936 mb expected on the basis of measurements at lower energies and an entrance-channel model for the fusion process. The experimental critical angular momentum of 27.5 ± 1.7 h̵, however, agrees with the prediction of the rotating liquid-drop model, suggesting that we have observed the absolute maximum angular momentum which the 26Al compound nucleus can sustain.

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