Sometimes You Need KISS: The creation of 241U.

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4. MNT MultiNucleon Transfer, apparently ... thanks for a very interesting paper.

I had thought the shell effects referred to in the 2nd para of the excerpt had been somewhat overemphasized in many discussions, but apparently the opposite is true, as the third para makes clear. Bookmarking this paper; looks like a gold mine of references.

Interesting to see how much post-collision processing is going on here. I had been wondering about the practicality of such things, but in the context of the more usual nuclear fusion reactions.

(When I first saw KISS in all caps I thought it was a reference to the rock group ... but then I realized it was the old sci/eng saw. Also noticed my own initials appear throughout the paper. )