Basic results of investigations of scission neutrons in nuclear fission at low excitation energies
Abstract
To estimate the main characteristics of neutrons emitted shortly before the scission of a fissioning nucleus, various experiments sensitive to the presence of these scission neutrons in thermal-neutron-induced fission of 235U and spontaneous fission of 252Cf were performed. The results of the experiments were analyzed within theoretical calculations allowing for various possible neutron-emission mechanisms, including the possibility of the emergence of neutrons from the scission of a nucleus.
- Publication:
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Physics of Atomic Nuclei
- Pub Date:
- July 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1134/S1063778808070028
- Bibcode:
- 2008PAN....71.1137P
- Keywords:
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- 25.85.-w;
- 25.85.Ec