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Title: Total kinetic energy release in the fast-neutron-induced fission of Np 237

Journal Article · · Physical Review. C

The total kinetic energy (TKE) release in the fast neutron-induced fission of 237Np was measured for neutron energies from En = 2.6–100 MeV at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center at the Weapons Neutron Research facility. The post-TKE release decreases nonlinearly with increasing incident neutron energy and can be represented as TKE(MeV) = (174.38 ± 0.72) – (5.11 ± 0.5821) log10En for En > 1 MeV. Analysis of the fragment mass distributions indicates that the decrease in TKE with increasing En is a consequence of the fading out of shell effects at high excitation energies (resulting in an increase of symmetric fission) and the decrease of the total kinetic energy associated with asymmetric fission with increasing En.

Research Organization:
Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0014380
OSTI ID:
1991557
Journal Information:
Physical Review. C, Vol. 102, Issue 6; ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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