Wakhle, A.Hammerton, K.Kohley, Z.Morrissey, D. J.Stiefel, K.Yurkon, J.Walshe, JosephCook, KaitlinDasgupta, MahanandaHinde, DavidJeung, DongyunEdayillam, prasadRafferty, DominicSimenel, CedricSimpson, EdwardVo-Phuoc, KirstenKing, J.Loveland, W.Yanez, R.2020-01-242020-01-242469-9985http://hdl.handle.net/1885/199629We have measured the capture-fission excitation functions for the reaction of stable 39K and radioactive 46K with 181Ta using the ReA3 facility at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Grant No. DE-SC0014380 (OSU), Australian Research Council Grants No. FL110100098, No.FT120100760, No. DP140101337, No. DP160101254, and No. DP170102318 (ANU) and the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement No. PHY-110251(MSU). One of us (K.S.) wishes to acknowledge support from the U.S. DOE NNSA through the Nuclear Science and Security consortium under Grant No. DE-NA0003180.application/pdfen-AU© 2018 American Physical Society2018-02-2810.1103/PhysRevC.97.0216022022-08-21