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Post-neutron emission fission product mass distributions are calculated by using pre-neutron emission fission product yields (FPYs) and neutron multiplicity. A semi-empirical model is used to calculate the pre-neutron FPY, first. Then the…

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Neutron star (NS) merger ejecta offer a viable site for the production of heavy r-process elements with nuclear mass numbers A >140. The crucial role of fission recycling is responsible for the robustness of this site against many…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-03 J. -F. Lemaître , S. Goriely , A. Bauswein , H. -T. Janka

Background: Neutron stars are astronomical systems with nucleons submitted to extreme conditions. Due to the long range coulomb repulsion between protons, the system has structural inhomogeneities. These structural inhomogeneities arise…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-07 P. N. Alcain , C. O. Dorso

Fission data are essential inputs to reaction networks involved in nucleosynthesis simulations and nuclear forensics. In such applications as well as in the description of multi-chance fission, the characteristics of fission for odd-mass…

A method is presented that allows exact calculations of fragment multiplicity distributions for a canonical ensemble of non-interacting clusters. Fragmentation properties are shown to depend on only a few parameters. Fragments are shown to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Scott Pratt , Subal Das Gupta

A new, rapidly convergent Fourier over spheroid parametrization is developed to describe the shape of a fissioning nucleus: its elongation, non-axiality and left-right asymmetry and neck formation. The 4D Potential Energy Surfaces (PES) of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Krzysztof Pomorski , Bożena Nerlo-Pomorska

We propose a method to calculate the two-dimensional (2D) fission-fragment yield $Y(Z,N)$ versus both proton and neutron number, with inclusion of odd-even staggering effects in both variables. The approach is to use Brownian shape-motion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 P. Moller , T. Ichikawa

Fission-fragment properties have been calculated for thermal neutron-induced fission on a $^{239}\textrm{Pu}$ target, using constrained Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations with a finite-range effective interaction. A quantitative criterion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 W. Younes , D. Gogny

The dynamics of fission has been studied by solving Euler-Lagrange equation with dissipation generated through one and two body nuclear friction. The average kinetic energies of the fission fragments, prescission neutron multiplicities and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Asish K. Dhara , Kewal Krishan , Chandana Bhattacharya , Sailjananda Bhattacharya

Fission fragment yield evaluations are one of the important nuclear data studies. Fission accompanies various physical observables such as prompt fission neutron, prompt fission gamma, and delayed-neutrons. When evaluating fission fragment…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-30 Futoshi Minato , Osamu Iwamoto

An effective Fourier nuclear shape parametrization which describes well the most relevant degrees of freedom on the way to fission is used to construct a 3D collective model. The potential energy surface is evaluated within the…

We study the fission yield of recently predicted thermally fissile neutron-rich uranium and thorium nuclei using statistical model. The level density parameters needed for the study are evaluated from the excitation energies of temperature…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-10-04 Bharat Kumar , M. T. Senthil kannan , M. Balasubramaniam , B. K. Agrawal , S. K. Patra

An electron localization measure was originally introduced to characterize chemical bond structures in molecules. Recently, a nucleon localization based on Hartree-Fock densities has been introduced to investigate $\alpha$-cluster…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-02 C. L. Zhang , B. Schuetrumpf , W. Nazarewicz

Studies of nuclear fission over recent decades have led to a well-defined mapping of neutron and proton shell effects across the nuclear chart, particularly within the valley of stability. These shell effects play a crucial role in driving…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-08-26 J. L. Rodríguez-Sánchez , J. Taïeb

We present a self-consistency analysis of fission product yield evaluations. Anomalous yields are determined using a series of simple conservation checks and comparing charge distributions with common parameterizations. The total prompt…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-06 Patrick Jaffke

Two instructive effects concerning fragment production at disintegration of finite nuclei are predicted with the statistical multifragmentation model: (1) a concentration of neutrons in intermediate mass fragments during the phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Botvina

We calculate neutron multiplicities from fission fragments with specified mass numbers for events having a specified total fragment kinetic energy. The shape evolution from the initial compound nucleus to the scission configurations is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-27 M. Albertsson , B. G. Carlsson , T. Døssing , P. Möller , J. Randrup , S. Åberg

The concept of fission barrier - a parameter which enters in quantitative estimates of various observables related to nuclear fission - is presented from the point of view of theory based on the picture of nuclear deformation and energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 Michał Kowal , Janusz Skalski

For the first time we apply the methodologies of nonlinear analysis to investigate atomic matter. We use these methods in the analysis of Atomic Weights and of Mass Number of atomic nuclei. Using the AutoCorrelation Function and Mutual…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elio Conte , Andrei Yu. Khrennikov , Joseph P. Zbilut

A comparative study of fission of actinides specially $^{238}$U, by proton and bremsstrahlung photon is performed. Relative mass distribution of $^{238}$U fission fragments have been explored theoretically for both proton and photon induced…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-15 F. A. Khan , Debasis Bhowmick , D. N. Basu , M. Farooq , Alok Chakrabarti