Abstract
The dominance of the deuteron breakup mechanism around the Coulomb barrier is shown by an analysis of the PaU reaction excitation function, while the same attribute was found within a former assessment for the deuteron-induced fission. The present alternative result is obtained by taking into account, in addition to pre-equilibrium and compound-nucleus processes, the opposite effects of deuteron breakup, namely the decrease of the deuteron total reaction cross section, and the inelastic-breakup enhancement of various deuteron-induced reaction channels.
- Received 9 December 2011
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.85.034603
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