A study of fusion - fission atZ= 107

An experiment was performed with the EUROGAM II array to investigate the reaction channels that are open in the fusion of a beam on the actinide target at a series of energies around the Coulomb barrier. The symmetric fission products identified from the level structures seem to suggest that a proton and neutrons are emitted prior to fission.

Wastewater Network Challenges and Solutions

Evaluation of rehabilitation impact on hydraulic and environmental performance of sewer systems (WP3 CARE-S Project)

The research project CARE-S (Computer Aided RE-habilitation of Sewer Networks) deals with public sewer and storm water networks of any dimension. CARE-S aims to analyse the structural and functional reliability of wastewater networks at minimum cost and disturbance. The ultimate product will be a Decision Support System (DSS) that will enable municipal engineers to establish and maintain effective management of their sewer networks. The project work plan follows a logical structure for the necessary work. It is divided in 10 Work Packages (WP) and each WP is distributed among several partners. The present paper presents the structure and the final results of WP 3 .The work package aim is th…

Electromagnetic transitions andαdecay of the223Panucleus

Actinides with $N\ensuremath{\sim}132$ present the best explored region of pear shape nuclei. Still almost no spectroscopic information is available for the heaviest elements, $Z=91--98,$ which are predicted to be octupole instable. The lack of data for the latter nuclei results from the high fission probability encountered in the heavy-ion reactions used to populate them. In order to overcome this handicap, an $\ensuremath{\alpha}$-decay tagging technique was used to identify $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ rays in ${}^{223}\mathrm{Pa}$ produced through the ${}^{208}\mathrm{Pb}{(}^{19}\mathrm{F},4n)$ reaction. A new value of 4.9(4) ms for the half-life of ${}^{223}\mathrm{Pa}$ was obtained as a by-p…

Gamma-spectroscopy of the 199At nucleus with the recoil filter detector

The neutron deficient 199At nucleus has been studied in the 175Lu+28Si reaction at Eb= 141 MeV. In order to select events of interest in the presence of the very strong background caused by fission, γ-rays have been detected in coincidence with recoiling evaporation residues. The excited states of 199At observed for the first time may indicate that this nucleus is deformed.