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A novel method to access the complete identification in atomic number Z and mass A of fragments produced in low-energy fission of actinides is presented. This method, based on the use of multi- nucleon transfer and fusion reactions in…

Medium-spin excited states of the neutron-rich nucleus $^{87}$Br were observed and studied for the first time. They were populated in fission of $^{235}$U induced by the cold-neutron beam of the PF1B facility of the Institut Laue-Langevin,…

Neutron-induced fission of $^{237}$Np has been measured over a wide range of incident neutron energies using a twin Frisch-gridded ionization chamber (TFGIC) and a thin-backed $^{237}$Np target. These measurements were performed at the Los…

Prompt fission neutron spectra from $^{239}$Pu($n,f$) were measured for incident neutron energies from $0.7$ to $700\,$MeV at the Weapons Neutron Research facility (WNR) of the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. A newly designed…

Comprehensive calculations of cross sections of photon induced reactions on $^{233-238}$U targets for incident photon energies from 3 up to 30 MeV are undertaken with the statistical model code EMPIRE-3.2 Malta. Results are compared with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 M. Sin , R. Capote , M. W. Herman , A. Trkov , B. V. Carlson

The prompt fission neutron spectra for neutron-induced fission of 233U for low energy neutrons (below 6 MeV) are calculated using the nuclear evaporation theory with a semi-empirical method, in which the partition of the total excitation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Yong-Jing Chen , Jia Min , Ting-Jin Liu , Neng-Chuan Shu

Mechanism of nuclear reactions on 197Au induced by 11B ions at energies above Coulomb barrier was studied by induced-activity method and gamma-spectroscopy. The cross sections of the reaction fragments from 197Au induced by 11B ions were…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-01 G. S. Karapetyan , N. A. Demekhina , A. R. Balabekyan

Spallation-induced fission reactions, in combination with state-of-the-art dynamical calculations, provide a robust framework for studying the nuclear dissipation mechanism in nuclear matter over a wide range of deformations. Experimental…

Several sources of angular anisotropy for fission fragments and prompt neutrons have been studied in neutron-induced fission reactions. These include kinematic recoils of the target from the incident neutron beam and the fragments from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-02 A. E. Lovell , P. Talou , I. Stetcu , K. J. Kelly

Prompt fission neutron spectra produced up to 20 MeV. Simultaneous analysis of measured and calculated data for 233U(n, F), 235U(n, F) and 239Pu(n, F) maintains stronger justification for the predicted PFNS of 233U(n, F). For the latter the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 V. M. Maslov

The pre-neutron-emission mass distributions for reaction $^{232}$Th(n, f) up to 60 MeV are systematically studied with an empirical fission potential model. The energy dependences of the peaks and valleys of the pre-neutron-emission mass…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Xiaojun Sun , Chenghua Pan , Chenggang Yu , Yongxu Yang , Ning Wang

The empirical calculations of the prompt neutrons average number for photofission of the 232Th, 233U, 234U, 235U, 236U, 238U, 237Np, 239Pu and 241Am actinides has been done as a function of photon energy, mass and charge of the nuclei,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-03-15 A. I. Lengyel , O. O. Parlag , V. T. Maslyuk , N. I. Romanyuk , O. O. Gritzay

The experiment of Ar+Au reactions at 30 MeV/u have been performed using the Compact Spectrometer for Heavy IoN Experiments (CSHINE) in phase I. The light-charged particles are measured by the silicon stripe telescopes in coincidence with…

In order to describe heavy-ion fusion reactions around the Coulomb barrier with an actinide target nucleus, we propose a model which combines the coupled-channels approach and a fluctuation-dissipation model for dynamical calculations. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Y. Aritomo , K. Hagino , K. Nishio , S. Chiba

Photofission of actinides is studied in the region of nuclear excitation energies that covers the entire giant dipole resonance (GDR) region. A comparative analysis of the behavior of the symmetric and asymmetric modes of photon induced…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-16 Debasis Bhowmick , Debasis Atta , D. N. Basu , Alok Chakrabarti

Nuclear fission of several neutron-deficient actinides and pre-actinides from excitation energies around 11 MeV was studied at GSI Darmstadt by use of relativistic secondary beams. The characteristics of multimodal fission of nuclei around…

Fission at low excitation energy is an ideal playground to probe the impact of nuclear structure on nuclear dynamics. While the importance of structural effects in the nascent fragments is well-established in the (trans-)actinide region,…

The $^{242}$Pu neutron-induced fission cross section was evaluated from 100 keV to 200 MeV. The experimental $^{242}$Pu and $^{235}$U fission cross sections and their ratios in the EXFOR library were reviewed and analysed by the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-02-02 Riko Okuyama , Naohiko Otuka , Go Chiba , Osamu Iwamoto

Neutron- and proton-induced fission cross-sections of separated isotopes of tungsten (182W, 183W, 184W, and 186W) and natural tungsten relative to 209Bi have been measured in the incident nucleon energy region 50-200 MeV using fission…

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