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Title: Using excitation-energy dependent fission yields to identify key fissioning nuclei in r -process nucleosynthesis

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ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [1];  [3]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [4];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [5]
  1. Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Nuclear Science Division
  4. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  5. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States). Dept. of Physics
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1525740
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1544739
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-760148; LA-UR-19-22109
Journal ID: ISSN 0954-3899; 948829
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344; 89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 46; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0954-3899
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS

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Vassh, N., Vogt, R., Surman, R., Randrup, J., Sprouse, T. M., Mumpower, M. R., Jaffke, P., Shaw, D., Holmbeck, E. M., Zhu, Y., and McLaughlin, G. C. Using excitation-energy dependent fission yields to identify key fissioning nuclei in r -process nucleosynthesis. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1088/1361-6471/ab0bea.
Vassh, N., Vogt, R., Surman, R., Randrup, J., Sprouse, T. M., Mumpower, M. R., Jaffke, P., Shaw, D., Holmbeck, E. M., Zhu, Y., & McLaughlin, G. C. Using excitation-energy dependent fission yields to identify key fissioning nuclei in r -process nucleosynthesis. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/ab0bea
Vassh, N., Vogt, R., Surman, R., Randrup, J., Sprouse, T. M., Mumpower, M. R., Jaffke, P., Shaw, D., Holmbeck, E. M., Zhu, Y., and McLaughlin, G. C. Thu . "Using excitation-energy dependent fission yields to identify key fissioning nuclei in r -process nucleosynthesis". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/ab0bea. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1525740.
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title = {Using excitation-energy dependent fission yields to identify key fissioning nuclei in r -process nucleosynthesis},
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year = {Thu Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
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