Decay of hot, rotating, compound nuclei

Abstract

The fusion process and the competition between fission and n, p and alpha-particle emission is studied. The calculations are performed for nuclei at excitation energies from 80 MeV up to about 300 MeV. The nuclear fission is described by a Langevin equation coupled to the Master equation for particle evaporation. A significant influence of the initial spin distribution on the prescission particles multiplicities is found.

Comments: Contributions to the conference "Advances in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas", Thessaloniki 8-12 July 1997, 10 pages in latex