Neutron and gamma emission in the fusion reaction 86Kr + 76Ge at 3,8 MeV/u

In the present thesis the neutron and gamma emission of Compound nuclei with high excitation energy and large maximal angular momenta was studied, which are formed in fusion reactions with heavy ions. Thereby the system 86Kr + 76Ge was studied at a beam energy of 3.8 MeV/u, because here intermediate mass product nuclei arise for which the neutron emission is the dominant particle channel. For the neutron detection a detector arrangement was developed, which consistent of several NE213 liquid scintillators constructed in the Institute for Nuclear Physics. A separation of neutrons and gamma quanta is possible by pulse shape discrimination. For the determination of energy and angular distribution of the emitted neutrons 8 of these detectors were put under angles from 00 to 1050 in distances between 30 and 50 cm from the target. A further NE 213 detector of larger volume was put at -900 in 6 cm distance from the target and applied for the detection of neutrons and gamma quanta in coincidence. By this preferently events with high neutron respectively gamma multiplicity corresponding to low and high angular momentum ranges of the compound nucleus can be filtered out. For monitoring purposes the energy spectrum of the gamma quanta was registrated by a Ge(Li) detector under 1350. Additionally by three Ge(Li) detectors at 00, 900, and 1350 the angular distribution of discrete gamma lines was registrated. Here also the additional NE213 detector at -900 served as multiplicity filter. (orig.)