Nuclear Fission Studies in Inverse Kinematics with the R3B Setup at the GSI-FAIR Facility

Abstract

[Abstract] Despite the recent experimental and theoretical progress in the investigation of the nuclear fission process, a complete description still represents a challenge in nuclear physics because it involves the coupling between intrinsic and collective degrees of freedom as well as different quantummechanical phenomena. In the last decade, unprecedented fission experiments have been carried out within the Reactions with Relativistic Radioactive Beams (R3B) Collaboration at the GSI facility by using the inverse kinematics technique in combination with state-of-the-art detectors especially designed to measure the fission products with high detection efficiency and acceptance.