Schematic model of two hard cores for cold fission

Structures in mass and total kinetic energy distribution (TKE) in cold fission of U-234, U-236, and Pu-240 are interpreted in terms of a static scission configuration model. The role of shells in fragments present in their deformation energy function, in the Coulomb interaction energy between fragme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Montoya, Modesto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1990
País:Perú
Institución:Instituto Peruano de Energía Nuclear
Repositorio:IPEN-Institucional
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ipen.gob.pe:20.500.13054/113
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13054/113
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fisión fría
Energía cinética
Uranio 234
Uranio 236
Plutonio 240
Fragmentos de fisión
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Sumario:Structures in mass and total kinetic energy distribution (TKE) in cold fission of U-234, U-236, and Pu-240 are interpreted in terms of a static scission configuration model. The role of shells in fragments present in their deformation energy function, in the Coulomb interaction energy between fragments at scission (C), and in the available energy (Q) are studied in detail. The maximal value of Cmax, corresponding to the most compact scission configuration, is calculated for several mass fragmentations. It is shown for a given primary fragmentation and Q being constant, that, if one increases the charge asymmetry, Cmax will increase. This dependence produces oscillations of Cmax as a function of light fragment mass (AL) which are correlated with the observed oscillations of the maximal values of TKE, TKEmax. The calculated Cmax values show odd-even effects in contrary to the experimental smooth TKEmax -lines. A schematic approach, in terms of two hard cores and a certain number of orbiting nucleons during the process of fission, is used to calculated odd-even effects in proton and neutron number distributions and in the fragment kinetic energy as a function of fragment charge. One assumes that pair breaking occurs between saddle and scission. A small fraction of total fission events ends up in paired states in both fragments.