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The Hauser-Feshbach statistical model is applied to the de-excitation of primary fission fragments using input mass yields calculated with macroscopic-microscopic models of the potential energy surface. We test the sensitivity of the prompt…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-21 Patrick Jaffke , Peter Moller , Patrick Talou , Arnold J. Sierk

$\textbf{Background}$ More than half of all the elements heavier than iron are made by the rapid neutron capture process (or r process). For very neutron-rich astrophysical conditions, such at those found in the tidal ejecta of neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Jhilam Sadhukhan , Samuel A. Giuliani , Zachary Matheson , Witold Nazarewicz

This work focuses on the study of temperature associated with the final heavy fragments in reactions induced by both the neutron-proton symmetric and the neutron-rich projectiles, and with incident energy ranges from 60$A$ MeV to 1$A$ GeV.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-12-04 C. W. Ma , J. Pu , Y. G. Ma , R. Wada , S. S. Wang

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

In the frame of proposed statistical method the calculation of fission-fragment yields mass and charge spectra for pre- actinide nuclei on example of natPb isotopes had been conducted.

The yields of strange particles are calculated with the UrQMD model for p,Pb(158 AGeV)Pb collisions and compared to experimental data. The yields are enhanced in central collisions if compared to proton induced or peripheral Pb+Pb…

As the Manhattan Project shifted to the theory of implosion assembly in 1944, plutonium was extremely rare and large uncertainties surrounded the function of the Gadget. For these reasons, a team within the Manhattan Project began another…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 J. E. Morgan

Recent implosion experiments performed at the OMEGA laser facility reported by Casey et al.[1], displayed an anomalously low dd proton yield and a high tt neutron yield as compared to dt fusion reactions, explained as a stratification of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-03-20 Hua Zheng , Aldo Bonasera

We analyze the experimental hadron yield ratios for central nucleus-nucleus collisions in terms of thermal model calculations over a broad energy range, $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=2.7-200 GeV. The fits of the experimental data with the model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Andronic , P. Braun-Munzinger , J. Stachel

Two versions of the neutron-gamma variance to mean (Feynman-alpha method or Feynman-Y function) formula for either gamma detection only or total neutron-gamma detection, respectively, are derived and compared in this paper. The new formulas…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-12-09 Dina Chernikova , Kåre Axell , Senada Avdic , Imre Pázsit , Anders Nordlund

Two photo-neutron sources, $^{88}$Y$^{9}$Be and $^{124}$Sb$^{9}$Be, have been used to investigate the ionization yield of nuclear recoils in the CDMSlite germanium detectors by the SuperCDMS collaboration. This work evaluates the yield for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-24 SuperCDMS Collaboration , M. F. Albakry , I. Alkhatib , D. W. P. Amaral , T. Aralis , T. Aramaki , I. J. Arnquist , I. Ataee Langroudy , E. Azadbakht , S. Banik , C. Bathurst , D. A. Bauer , L. V. S. Bezerra , R. Bhattacharyya , M. A. Bowles , P. L. Brink , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , R. Calkins , R. A. Cameron , C. Cartaro , D. G. Cerdeño , Y. -Y. Chang , M. Chaudhuri , R. Chen , N. Chott , J. Cooley , H. Coombes , J. Corbett , P. Cushman , F. De Brienne , M. L. di Vacri , M. D. Diamond , E. Fascione , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , C. W. Fink , K. Fouts , M. Fritts , G. Gerbier , R. Germond , M. Ghaith , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , B. A. Hines , M. I. Hollister , Z. Hong , E. W. Hoppe , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , V. Iyer , A. Jastram , V. K. S. Kashyap , M. H. Kelsey , A. Kubik , N. A. Kurinsky , R. E. Lawrence , M. Lee , A. Li , J. Liu , Y. Liu , B. Loer , P. Lukens , D. MacDonell , D. B. MacFarlane , R. Mahapatra , V. Mandic , N. Mast , A. J. Mayer , H. Meyer zu Theenhausen , É. Michaud , E. Michielin , N. Mirabolfathi , B. Mohanty , J. D. Morales Mendoza , S. Nagorny , J. Nelson , H. Neog , V. Novati , J. L. Orrell , M. D. Osborne , S. M. Oser , W. A. Page , R. Partridge , D. S. Pedreros , R. Podviianiuk , F. Ponce , S. Poudel , A. Pradeep , M. Pyle , W. Rau , E. Reid , R. Ren , T. Reynolds , A. Roberts , A. E. Robinson , T. Saab , B. Sadoulet , I. Saikia , J. Sander , A. Sattari , A. Scarff , B. Schmidt , R. W. Schnee , S. Scorza , B. Serfass , D. J. Sincavage , C. Stanford , J. Street , F. K. Thasrawala , D. Toback , R. Underwood , S. Verma , A. N. Villano , B. von Krosigk , S. L. Watkins , O. Wen , Z. Williams , M. J. Wilson , J. Winchell , K. Wykoff , S. Yellin , B. A. Young , T. C. Yu , B. Zatschler , S. Zatschler , A. Zaytsev , E. Zhang , L. Zheng , S. Zuber

Nuclear recoil backgrounds are one of the most dangerous backgrounds for many dark matter experiments. A primary source of nuclear recoils is radiogenic neutrons produced in the detector material itself. These neutrons result from fission…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-15 S. Westerdale , P. D. Meyers

Thermal fission energy is one of the basic parameters needed in the calculation of antineutrino flux for reactor neutrino experiments. It is useful to improve the precision of the thermal fission energy calculation for current and future…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-08-09 X. B. Ma , W. L. Zhong , L. Z. Wang , Y. X. Chen , J. Cao

In a previously presented proof-of-principle study, we established a parametrized spherically symmetric explosion method (PUSH) that can reproduce many features of core-collapse supernovae for a wide range of pre-explosion models. The…

This article describes calculations of the yield ratio of anti-particles to the yield of particles ($\bar{p}/p$, $\bar{d}/d$,$\overline{^{3}\mathrm{He}}$/$^{3}$He) in proton-proton and nuclear-nuclear interactions using the self-similarity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 A. I Malakhov , A. A. Zaitsev

A direct and complete measurement of isotopic fission-fragment yields of $^{239}$U has been performed for the first time. The $^{239}$U fissioning system was produced with an average excitation energy of 8.3 MeV in one-neutron transfer…

Employing the recently developed neXus model, we compare the yields of different hadrons in ultra-relativistic collisions: electron-positron annihilation at 91 GeV, proton-proton scattering at 17 GeV and nucleus-nucleus collisions at 17 GeV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Drescher , J. Aichelin , K. Werner

We present a new set of presupernova evolutions and explosive yields of massive stars of initial solar composition (Y=0.285, Z=0.02) in the mass range 13-35 Msun. All the models have been computed with the latest version (4.97) of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Limongi , A. Chieffi

We report a measurement of the antineutrino rate from the fission of U-235 with the STEREO detector using 119 days of reactor turned on. In our analysis, we perform several detailed corrections and achieve the most precise single…

Over the last decade, there has been significant improvement in the understanding and modeling of the decay of fission fragments by both prompt and delayed emission. These model improvements open the door for performing consistent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 A. E. Lovell , T. Kawano , P. Talou