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According to the driving potential of a fissile system, we propose a phenomenological fission potential for a description of the pre-neutron emission mass distributions of neutron-induced actinide fission. Based on the nucleus-nucleus…

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Prompt and $\beta$-delayed fission observables, such as the average number of prompt and delayed neutrons, the independent and cumulative fission product yields, and the prompt $\gamma$-ray energy spectra for the photonuclear reactions on…

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We prepare high quality actinide targets for studies of neutron induced and charged particle induced fission. I report on our efforts to measure fragment energy loss in the target backings and to diagnose the crud problem frequently found…

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Photonuclear reaction is described with an approach based on the quasideuteron nuclear photoabsorption model followed by the process of competition between light particle evaporation and fission for the excited nucleus. Thus fission process…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tapan Mukhopadhyay , D. N. Basu

Fission fragment angular distributions can provide an important constraint on fission theory, improving predictive fission codes, and are a prerequisite for a precise ratio cross section measurement. Available anisotropy data is sparse,…

Activation analysis is used in this work to measure the flux of a fast neutron beamline at a spallation source over a wide energy spectrum, extending from thermal to hundreds of MeV. The experimental method is based on the irradiation of…

One of considered nowadays scenarios of proton - nucleus reaction is spallation. Its motivation is based on experimental final-state observations of one heavy nucleus, a small number of light fragments and numerous individual nucleons. It…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-01-07 Anna Kowalczyk

Activation cross sections of proton induced nuclear reactions on palladium were measured up to 80 MeV by using the stacked foil irradiation technique and gamma ray spectrometry. The beam intensity, the incident energy and the energy…

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The prompt neutron averaged number and the dependence of prompt neutron yield on fragment mass {\nu}(A) of photofission of actinide nuclei 235U and 238U in the giant dipole resonance energy range has been parameterized. This allows us to…

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

The possibilities of the proposed statistical approach are shown in the task of investigating the post-scission transformation of mass and charge yields of fission fragments with considering the emission of different length of chains of…

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We studied the complete dynamics of the proton-induced spallation process with the microscopic framework of the Constrained Molecular Dynamics (CoMD) Model. We performed calculations of proton-induced spallation reactions on 181Ta, 208Pb,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 A. Assimakopoulou , G. A. Souliotis , A. Bonasera , A. Botvina , N. G. Nicolis , M. Veselsky

Fission-fragment mass distributions were measured for 225,227Pa nuclei formed in fusion reactions of 19F + 206, 208Pb around fusion barrier energies. Mass-angle correlations do not indicate any quasi-fission like events in this bombarding…

Background: Asymmetric fission is known to occur in two regions, the actinides and sub-lead, and is dependent on the fissioning system excitation energy. Experimental evidence in the sub-lead region show that this mode is surprisingly…

New measurements of photofission and photoneutron reactions on $^{238}$U and $^{232}$Th in the Giant Dipole Resonance (GDR) energy region have been performed at the laser Compton-scattering $\gamma$-ray source of the NewSUBARU synchrotron…

The process of nuclear multifragmentation has been implemented, together with evaporation and fission channels of the disintegration of excited remnants in nucleus-nucleus collisions using percolation theory and the intranuclear cascade…

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Neutron-induced fission cross-section studies are being pursued with a double Frisch grid fission detector. We are working towards conducting neutron-induced fission cross-section measurements of high priority 241Am(n, f) and 244,245Cm(n,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-03 Chandrabhan Yadav , Dvir Ben Simhon , Moshe Friedman

Large-scale computations of fission properties play a crucial role in nuclear reaction network calculations simulating rapid neutron-capture process (r-process) nucleosynthesis. Due to the large number of fissioning nuclei contributing to…

Background: A quantitative microscopic understanding of the fission-fragment yield distributions represents a major challenge for nuclear theory as it involves the intricate competition between large-amplitude nuclear collective motion and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-02 Jhilam Sadhukhan , Samuel A. Giuliani , Witold Nazarewicz

Monte Carlo calculations of fission of actinides and pre-actinides induced by protons and neutrons in the energy range from 100 MeV to 1 GeV are carried out by means of a recent version of the Li\`ege Intranuclear Cascade Model, INCL++,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-12-02 Sergio Lo Meo , Davide Mancusi , Cristian Massimi , Gianni Vannini , Alberto Ventura