HIGH SPIN STATES IN DEEP-INELASTIC AND COMPOUND-NUCLEUS REACTIONS

Compound-nucleus reactions provide the standard mechanism to populate states with high angular momentum in neutron deficient nuclei. Neutron-rich nuclei with mass A < 150 can be studied in spontaneous and induced fission. Projectile fragmentation has proven to be an efficient method of populating nuclei far from the valley of stability. However, in the case of heavy nuclei this method is still limited to species with isomeric states. Deep-inelastic reactions are another reaction mechanism which can be used to study neutronrich nuclei and are able to populate relatively high-spin states. In this article we compare the advantages and disadvantages of each method.