Investigation of the {sup 208}Pb({sup 18}O, f) fission reaction: Mass-energy distributions of fission fragments and their correlation with the gamma-ray multiplicity
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Russian Federation)
- Texas A and M University, Cyclotron Institute (United States)
The mass-energy distributions of fragments originating from the fission of the compound nucleus {sup 226}Th and their correlations with the multiplicity of gamma rays emitted from these fragments are measured and analyzed in {sup 18}O + {sup 208}Pb interaction induced by projectile oxygen ions of energy in the range E{sub lab} = 78-198.5 MeV. Manifestations of an asymmetric fission mode, which is damped exponentially with increasing E{sub lab}, are demonstrated. Theoretical calculations of fission valleys reveal that only two independent valleys, symmetric and asymmetric, exist in the vicinity of the scission point. The dependence of the multiplicity of gamma rays emitted from both fission fragments on their mass, M{sub {gamma}}(M), has a complicated structure and is highly sensitive to shell effects in both primary and final fragments. A two-component analysis of the dependence M{sub {gamma}}(M) shows that the asymmetric mode survives in fission only at low partial-wave orbital angular momenta of compound nuclei. It is found that, for all E{sub lab}, the gamma-ray multiplicity M{sub {gamma}}as a function of the total kinetic energy (TKE) of fragments, M{sub {gamma}}(TKE), decreases linearly with increasing TKE. An analysis of the energy balance in the fission process at the laboratory energy of E{sub lab} = 78 MeV revealed the region of cold fission of fragments whose total kinetic energy is TKE {approx}Q{sub max}.
- OSTI ID:
- 21402570
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Atomic Nuclei, Vol. 71, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1134/S1063778808060021; Copyright (c) 2008 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; ISSN 1063-7788
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ASYMMETRY
COLD FISSION
COMPOUND NUCLEI
ENERGY BALANCE
ENERGY SPECTRA
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GAMMA RADIATION
KINETIC ENERGY
LEAD 208
MASS DISTRIBUTION
MEV RANGE
MULTIPLICITY
ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM
OXYGEN 18
OXYGEN IONS
PARTIAL WAVES
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
SYMMETRY
THORIUM 226
ACTINIDE NUCLEI
ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
ANGULAR MOMENTUM
CHARGED PARTICLES
DISTRIBUTION
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
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ENERGY RANGE
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
FISSION
HEAVY NUCLEI
INTERACTIONS
IONIZING RADIATIONS
IONS
ISOTOPES
LEAD ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
NUCLEAR FRAGMENTS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEI
OXYGEN ISOTOPES
RADIATIONS
RADIOISOTOPES
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
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