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Phys. Rev. C 64, 019802 (2001) [2 pages]

Reply to ‘Comment on “Spin and excitation energy dependence of fission survival for the 19F+175Lu system” ’

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S. K. Hui1,*, A. K. Sinha2, M. Thoennessen3, G. Gervais4, A. K. Ganguly6, N. Madhavan5, S. Murlithar5, D. O. Kataria5, C. R. Bhuinya6, Lagy T. Baby5, Vandana Tripathi5, P. V. Madhusudhana Rao7, N. V. S. V. Prasad7, A. M. Vinodkumar8, Akhil Jhingan5, P. Sugathan5, J. J. Das5, and R. Singh9
1Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
2Inter University Consortium for DAE facility, Calcutta 700094, India
3National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, Michigan 48824
4Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
5Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi 110067, India
6Department of Physics, Calcutta University, Calcutta 700009, India
7Department of Nuclear Physics, Andhra University, India
8Department of Physics, Calicut University, India
9Department of Physics, Delhi University, India

Received 27 March 2001; published 5 June 2001

We agree with the preceding Comment that the evaporation residue cross-section measurement is indeed a sensitive tool to study nuclear viscosity. The CASCADE calculations with the improved level-density description used by Diószegi reproduce our evaporation residue measurement without nuclear viscosity. However, our CASCADE calculations were not used to reproduce the absolute magnitude of the evaporation residue cross section but rather the shape of the spin distribution. The calculations show that the spin distribution can be fitted to the standard calculation without dissipation in agreement with the Comment by Diószegi. We conclude that the need to include nuclear viscosity effects in previous measurements must be due to strong viscosity outside of the saddle point.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.64.019802
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.64.019802
PACS:
25.70.Jj, 24.60.Dr, 25.70.Gh, 27.80.+w

*Email address: hui@physics.purdue.edu

See Also

Original Article: I. Diószegi, N. P. Shaw, I. Mazumdar, A. Hatzikoutelis, and P. Paul, Nuclear viscosity of hot rotating 224Th, Phys. Rev. C 61, 024613 (2000).

 
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