Abstract
Background: Quasifission is the main reaction channel hindering the formation of superheavy nuclei (SHN). Its understanding will help to optimize entrance channels for SHN studies. Quasifission also provides a probe to understand the influence of shell effects in the formation of the fragments.Purpose: Investigate the role of shell effects in quasifission and their interplay with the orientation of the deformed target in the entrance channel.Methods: $^{48}\mathrm{Ca}+^{249}\mathrm{Bk}$ collisions are studied with the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approach for a range of angular momenta and orientations.Results: Unlike similar reactions with a $^{238}\mathrm{U}$ target, no significant shell effects which could be attributed to the $^{208}\mathrm{Pb}$ ``doubly magic'' nucleus are found. However, the octupole deformed shell gap at $N=56$ seems to strongly influence quasifission in the most-central collisions.Conclusions: Shell effects similar to those observed in fission affect the formation of quasifission fragments. Mass-angle correlations could be used to experimentally isolate the fragments influenced by $N=56$ octupole shell gaps.
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