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  Wheldon, C.; Kokalova, Tz.; von Oertzen, W.; Gebauer, B.; Bohlen, H.G.; Schulz, Ch.; Thummerer, S.; Efimov, G.; Beck, C.; Curien, D.; Papka, P.: Particle-γ coincidences and coplanarity in the ³²S + ²⁴Mg binary reaction. Nuclear Physics A 811 (2008), p. 276-290

10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2008.08.006

Abstract:
The reaction ³²S(165.4 MeV) + ²⁴Mg is studied using the binary reaction spectrometer (BRS) coupled to the EUROBALL Ge-detector array. Particle-particle and particle-γ-γ coincidences have been examined together with γ-γ-only coincidences for the fusion-evaporation residues. Recent reports of evidence for hyper-deformation from angular correlations in similar data are investigated. Analogous out-of-plane angular correlations are observed but attributed to reactions with the target contaminants ¹⁶O and ¹²C. This is consistent with the contamination observed in the γ-γ-only data.