Investigations of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions induced by complex projectiles

This is a progress report on activities of the Washington University group in nuclear reaction studies for the period Sept 1, 1992 to Aug 31, 1993. This group has a research program which touches five areas of nuclear physics: nuclear structure studies at high spin; studies at the interface between structure and reactions; production and study of hot nuclei; reaction mechanism studies; development and use of novel techniques and instrumentation in the above areas of research. Specific activities of the group include in part: superdeformation in 82Sr; structure of and identical bands in 182Hg and 178Pt; a highly deformed band in 136Pm; particle decay of the 164Yb compound nucleus; fusion reactions; proton evaporation; two-proton decay of 12O; modeling and theoretical studies; excited 16O disassembly into four alpha particles; 209Bi + 136Xe collisions at 28.2 MeV/amu; and development work on 4π solid angle gamma detectors, and x-ray detectors