Excitation energy dependence of prompt fission γ-ray emission from 241Pu*
- Univ. of Oslo (Norway)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- Univ. Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France). CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- iThemba LABS, Somerset West (South Africa); Stellenbosch Univ., Matieland (South Africa)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Horia Hulubei National Inst. for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest-Magurele (Romania)
- European Commission, Geel (Belgium). Joint Research Center
- Inst. for Nuclear Research (Atomki), Debrecen (Hungary)
- Univ. of Oslo (Norway); Expert Analytics AS, Oslo (Norway)
Prompt fission γ rays (PFGs) resulting from the 240Pu(d,pf) reaction have been measured as a function of fissioning nucleus excitation energy Ex at the Oslo Cyclotron Laboratory. We study the average total PFG multiplicity per fission, the average total PFG energy released per fission, and the average PFG energy. No significant changes in these characteristics are observed over the range 5.75 < Ex < 8.25 MeV. The physical implications of this result are discussed. The experimental results are compared to simulations conducted using the computational fission model FREYA. We find that FREYA reproduces the experimental PFG characteristics within 8% deviation across the Ex range studied. Furthermore, previous excitation energy-dependent PFG measurements conducted below the second-chance fission threshold have large uncertainties, but are generally in agreement with our results within a 2σ confidence interval. However, both a published parametrization of the PFG energy dependence and the most recent PFG evaluation included in ENDF/B-VIII.0 were found to poorly describe the PFG excitation-energy dependence observed in this and previous experiments.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); Research Council of Norway
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344; AC02-05CH11231; 263030; 637686
- OSTI ID:
- 1779579
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1783449
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-821905; LLNL-JRNL-822508; 1032462; TRN: US2209664
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review C, Vol. 103, Issue 3; ISSN 2469-9985
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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