Excitation energy partition in fission

Entropy driven excitation energy sorting in superfluid fission dynamics.

It is shown that the constant-temperature behavior of nuclei in the superfluid regime leads to an energy-sorting process if two nuclei are in thermal contact, as is the case in the fission process. This effect explains why an increase of the initial excitation energy leads an increase of the number of emitted neutrons from the heavy fission fragment, only. The observed essentially complete ener...

Cold-fission yields at effective excitation energies.

The experimental cold-fission yields for the systein 2 3 ' ~ ( n , h , f ) are analyzed as function of the effective total excitation energy (TXE). The nuclear level density effect is taken into account at higher TXE, in order to benefit by the lower experimental data uncertainty as well as to avoid the quantitative account of the level densities close to fragment ground states. In this way the...

Cl+C ASYMMETRICAL FISSION EXCITATION FUNCTIONS

The fully energy-damped yields from the 35Cl+12C reaction have been systematically investigated using particle-particle coincidence techniques at a 35Cl bombarding energy of ∼ 8 MeV/nucleon. The fragment-fragment correlation data show that the majority of events arises from a binary-decay process with rather large numbers of secondary light-charged particles emitted from the two excited exit fr...

Overview of Fission Safety for Laser ICF Fission Energy

This paper reviews fission safety design principles and approaches for coupling inertial confinement fusion (ICF) to a subcritical fission blanket, in Laser ICF Fission Energy (LIFE) power plants. LIFE power plants use fuel derived from either spent fuel from fission reactors, or from natural uranium or thorium. By using fusion neutrons, LIFE plants can fission a large fraction of the heavy met...

Intermediate - Energy Coulomb Excitation