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The $^{236}$U fission cross section and the angular distributions of fragments from fission of $^{235}$U and $^{236}$U were measured for incident neutron energies from 0.3 MeV to 500 MeV on the time-of-flight spectrometer of the neutron…

Fission fragments' charge and mass distribution is an important input to applications ranging from basic science to energy production or nuclear non-proliferation. In simulations of nucleosynthesis or calculations of superheavy elements,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Marc Verriere , David Regnier , Nicolas Schunck

We analyze the ordered state of nuclear spins embedded in an interacting two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI). Stability of the ferromagnetic nuclear-spin phase is governed by nonanalytic dependences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Robert Andrzej Zak , Dmitrii L. Maslov , Daniel Loss

This paper presents recent experimental results on the yield of prompt fission $\gamma$ rays from the spontaneous fission of $^{252}$Cf. We use an ionization chamber to tag fission events and measure the masses and kinetic energies of the…

The mixing of the quasifission component to the fissionlike cross section causes ambiguity in the quantitative estimation of the complete fusion cross section from the observed angular and mass distributions of the binary products. We show…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 A. K. Nasirov , A. I. Muminov , G. Giardina , G. Mandaglio , M. Manganaro

Presently, it is well established that fission of excited nuclei is a dynamical process being a subject of fluctuations and dissipation. In the literature, there are indications that, at the compact nucleus shapes, the strength of nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Maria Chushnyakova , Igor Gontchar

The phenomenon of quantum nucleation is studied in a ferromagnet in the presence of a magnetic field at an arbitrary angle. We consider the magnetocrystalline anisotropy with tetragonal symmetry and that with hexagonal symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yi Zhou , Rong Lu , Jia-Lin Zhu , Lee Chang

A rapidly converging 4-dimensional Fourier shape parametrization is used to model the fission process of heavy nuclei. Potential energy landscapes are computed within the macroscopic-microscopic approach, on top of which the…

Quantum fluctuations are ubiquitous and play crucial roles across various scales and systems, such as the Big Bang, black hole dynamics, quantum phase transitions in microscopic many-body systems, and so on. Nuclear fission manifests as a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-10 M. H. Zhou , S. Y. Chen , Z. Y. Li , M. S. Smith , Z. P. Li

We have extended significantly the microscopic description of the fission process by examining a larger set of observables. We extract neutron and proton numbers of fission fragments, their spins and fission fragment relative orbital…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-12 Aurel Bulgac

Langevin equation is used to simulate the fission process of $^{112}$Sn + $^{112}$Sn and $^{116}$Sn + $^{116}$Sn. The mass distribution of the fission fragments are given by assuming the process of symmetric fission or asymmetric fission…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Wang , Y. G. Ma , Y. B. Wei , X. Z. Cai , J. G. Chen , D. Q. Fang , W. Guo , G. L. Ma , W. Q. Shen , W. D. Tian , C. Zhong , X. F. Zhou

The GEneral description of Fission observables (GEF) model was developed to produce fission related nuclear data which are of crucial importance for basic and applied nuclear physics. The investigation of the performance of the GEF code is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-17 C. Schmitt , K. -H. Schmidt , B. Jurado

The origin of the asymmetry in the fragment mass distribution of low-energy nuclear fission is considered from the semiclassical point of view. Using the semiclassical periodic-orbit theory, one can define and quantify the shell effect…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-06 K. Arita , T. Ichikawa , K. Matsuyanagi

The fission processes of $^{112}$Sn + $^{112}$Sn and $^{116}$Sn + $^{116}$Sn are simulated with the combination of the Langevin equation and the statistical decay model. The masses of two fission fragments are given by assuming the process…

Isoscaling is found to hold for fragment yields in the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics (AMD) simulations for collisions of calcium isotopes at 35 MeV/nucleon. This suggests the applicability of statistical considerations to the dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Akira Ono , P. Danielewicz , W. A. Friedman , W. G. Lynch , M. B. Tsang

In quasi-fission, it is unclear what the interaction between the relative orbital angular momentum and the spin of the fragments is from a microscopic perspective. In macroscopic approaches, it is expected that the large value of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Guillaume Scamps

The generation of angular momentum in fissioning nuclei is not well understood. The predictions of different models disagree, particularly concerning the correlation between the fragments' angular momenta. In this article, a time-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-20 Guillaume Scamps , George Bertsch

Actinide nuclei exhibit mass-asymmetric fission at low energy due to shell structure. The fission-fragment mass distributions produced at high energy tend to have a symmetric shape due to smearing of shell effects. On the other hand, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-22 S. Takagi , S. Harada , Y. Aritomo , K. Hirose , K. Nishio

The generation of fission fragment spin as a probe of scission mechanism remains a question of considerable interests. We present here microscopic calculations of rapidly rotating fission of the compound nucleus 240Pu under varying initial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Yu Qiang , Zhibo Li , Junchen Pei

We investigate the signature of magnetic surface anisotropy in nanoparticles in their spin-flip neutron scattering cross section. Taking into account the isotropic exchange interaction, an external magnetic field, a uniaxial or cubic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-13 Michael P. Adams , Evelyn Pratami Sinaga , Hamid Kachkachi , Andreas Michels