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Title: Fission dynamics of Pu 240 from saddle to scission and beyond

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [2];  [3]; ORCiD logo [4]
  1. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
  2. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
  3. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  4. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1570633
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1562742; OSTI ID: 1579618
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-18-23917; LLNL-JRNL-753306
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985; PRVCAN; TRN: US2100106
Grant/Contract Number:  
89233218CNA000001; FG02-97ER41014; AC05-00OR22725; AC02-05CH11231; AC52-07NA27344; NA0003841
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review C
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 100; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS

Citation Formats

Bulgac, Aurel, Jin, Shi, Roche, Kenneth J., Schunck, Nicolas, and Stetcu, Ionel. Fission dynamics of Pu240 from saddle to scission and beyond. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.100.034615.
Bulgac, Aurel, Jin, Shi, Roche, Kenneth J., Schunck, Nicolas, & Stetcu, Ionel. Fission dynamics of Pu240 from saddle to scission and beyond. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.100.034615
Bulgac, Aurel, Jin, Shi, Roche, Kenneth J., Schunck, Nicolas, and Stetcu, Ionel. Thu . "Fission dynamics of Pu240 from saddle to scission and beyond". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.100.034615. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1570633.
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