A new radioactive decay mode, true ternary fission, the decay of heavy nuclei into three comparable fragments

Decay of Highly Excited Nuclei Emission of Intermediate Mass Fragments Normal to the Fission Axis in Hot Heavy Nuclei

RANDy - A True-Random Generator Based On Radioactive Decay

This paper presents a physical random number generator for mainly cryptographical applications based on alpha decay of Americium 241. A simple and low-cost implementation is shown to detect the decay events of a radioactive source often found in common household smoke detectors. Three different algorithms for the extraction of random bits from the exponentially distributed impulses are discusse...

Fission and ternary cluster decay of hyper - deformed 56 Ni

Coincidences between two heavy fragments have been measured from the fission of Ni compound nuclei formed in the S + Mg reaction at Elab( S) = 165.4 MeV. A unique experimental set-up consisting of two large-area position-sensitive (x, y) gas detector telescopes has been used allowing the complete determination of the observed fragments and their momentum vectors. In addition to binary fission e...

Characterization of hot compound nuclei from binary decay into complex fragments.

The emission of complex particles at intermediate energies has been characterized through the reverse-kinematics reactions 25and 30-MeV/u 9'Nb+ Be, 'Al. Complex particles observed in binary decays from very hot incomplete-fusion intermediates are shown to originate from compound-nucleus decay, by means of kinetic energies, angular distributions, and absolute yields. The process of complex-parti...

Poisson Distribution of Radioactive Decay

In this experiment we observe the distribution of radiation emitted by a Cs source. Using a scintillation counter, we count the number of gamma rays emitted by the radiation source at four different mean count rates: 1 sec−1, 4 sec−1, 10 sec−1, and 100 sec−1. From this we can plot the distribution of counts/sec versus the frequency of count rate. We find the distributions for the different mean...