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Oleksandr Gorbachenko
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2020
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Physics
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Mass-angle correlation of fission fragments has been understood as manifestation of quasifission. We show that this is not so: the effect can originate from correlation between fusion-fission amplitudes with different total spins signifying matter-wave interference in compound nucleus processes. This resolves the well-known puzzle with the mass-angle correlation in the complete fusion sub-barrier reaction $^{16}$O+$^{238}$U. Our finding is important for more reliable predictions of production cross sections for superheavy elements. Matter-wave interference also produces quantum-classical transition to the time-orientation localization of the coherently rotating dinucleus in quasifission.
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It is shown that the unexpected character of the angular correlation between the angle of the primary fission fragment intrinsic spins, recently evaluated by performing very complex time-dependent density functional simulations, which favors fission fragment intrinsic spins pointing in opposite directions, can be understood using simple general arguments.
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