Recent Progress in the Study of the Reaction 70Zn (15 MeV/nucleon) + 64Ni with the MAGNEX Spectrometer

Abstract

The present paper is focused on our recent efforts to study the production and identification of neutron-rich medium-mass rare isotopes from peripheral reactions at beam energies around and below the Fermi energy. We obtained high-quality experimental data from a recent experiment with the MAGNEX spectrometer at the INFN-LNS in Catania, Italy. The main aim of this experiment was to check the feasibility of ejectile identification in this energy regime with the use of a large acceptance magnetic spectrometer. Our developed technique for particle identification depends mainly on a reconstruction of both the atomic number Z and the ionic charge q of the ions, followed by the identification of the mass. Our method was successfully applied to identify neutron-rich ejectiles from multinucleon transfer from the reaction of ⁷⁰Zn (15 MeV/nucleon) + ⁶⁴Ni. Preliminary results indicate that the extracted experimental distributions, along with comparisons with the theoretical models could help us to shed light to the complex reaction mechanism of multinucleon transfer in this energy regime.