基于裂变γ标识技术的瞬发裂变中子谱测量新方法

瞬发裂变中子谱（prompt fission neutron spectrum,PFNS）是用于核实验诊断过程中十分重要的参数数据,传统的测量主锕系核素（U,Pu）PFNS的技术手段是采用裂变室,利用裂变碎片标识裂变中子,通过中子飞行时间技术获得裂变中子谱.目前出现了一种新的用于PFNS测量的技术,其原理是基于如下的物理事实：在一次裂变过程中,释放中子的同时伴随着释放7–8个γ射线光子,而非弹性散射效应产生的γ射线光子只有1–2个.据此,可以通过裂变γ射线的多重性将裂变中子和其他杂散中子甄选出来,达到测量PFNS的目的.本文建立了基于裂变γ标识技术的PFNS测量实验系统.利用该系统对²⁵²Cf中子源的PFNS进行了实验测量,测量结果与传统的裂变碎片标识法及ENDF/B-VⅡ数据库的标准谱进行了比较,对新方法的裂变标识率以及实验不确定度也一并进行了分析.     

非全熔合反应裂变角分布

采用核固体径迹探测器测量了¹⁶O+¹⁵⁹Tb、¹⁶O+¹⁹⁷)Au和¹⁶O+²⁰⁹Bi反应碎片角分布,扣除中等质量碎片(IMF)的贡献,用过渡态统计模型(TSM)和单个自旋标准理论拟合实验的裂变角分布,提取裂变核的自旋. 讨论了它随质心系入射能量的变化.     

裂变路径对断点前粒子发射的影响

用扩散模型研究了裂变系统从鞍点到断点的时间演化, 以及在此间的粒子发射与鞍点前粒子发射的比随着裂变系统质量的变化. 解释了实验上发现的断点前粒子多重性随裂变碎片质量不对称性的变化趋势. 结果表明上述两种变化趋势都可以归因于裂变演化路程长短的影响.     

Study of shape isomer yields of 240Am in the framework of a dynamical-statistical model

A dynamical statistical model is used to analyze the experimental shape isomer yields data in the reaction d+240pu at E=20-29 MeV.The possibility of determining the nuclear dissipation is discussed.Comparison of the experimental data with the calculations leads to a value of the reduced dissipation coefficient β=0.45×1021 S-1 for the Am isotopes.     

Fission of muonic 232Th and 239Pu

The neutron emission is studied following the formation of muonic atoms of ²³²Th and ²³⁹Pu. Energy and time distributions are measured. Various processes which contribute to the measured spectra are considered. A collective resonance model of the muon capture is used to calculate the nuclear excitation function. The probability of the radiationless nuclear excitations and the influence of the presence of the bound atomic muon on the fission barrier are discussed. The existing data for the $\text{Γ}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{Γ}{}_{\mathrm{f}}$, are analysed. As a result of the analysis the rates of the prompt and delayed fission events (due to the radiationless mu-atomic transitions and the nuclear muon capture, respectively) are deduced from the experimental data to be 0.006/muon and 0.045/muon for ²³²Th and 0.10/muon and 0.49/muon for ²³⁹Pu, respectively. The increase of the fission barrier for muonic atoms is confirmed. The experimental neutron rates can be consistently explained only if it is assumed that in both nucleides the K_α radiationless transitions do not induce fission. The increase of the fission barrier for ²³⁹Pu is hence deduced to be not less than 1.2 MeV. The fate of the atomic muon after the nuclear fission is briefly discussed. Its influence on the interpretation of the present results is found to be small.     

Symmetric and asymmetric fission of 226Ra induced by 5 to 15 MeV neutrons

Kinetic energy spectra of fragments in the 5–15 MeV neutron-induced fission of ²²⁶Ra are obtained. The fraction of fragments corresponding to the central peak of the mass yield curve is determined for each neutron energy used. It is shown that at low excitation energies of the ²²⁷Ra compound nucleus precluding second-chance fission the mass yield curve retains its triple-peaked nature. At still lower excitations, near the fission threshold, radium undergoes asymmetric fission, just as the heavier nuclei.     

Correlation between fragment mass-distribution fine structure,charge distribution and nuclear structure for thermal-neutron-induced fission of 233U and 235U

Masses corresponding to observed fine-structure peaks in the fragment mass distributions for thermal-neutron-induced fission of ²³³U and ²³⁵U are shown to correspond to average measured masses for even-even nuclear charge splits. Evidence is presented that the yield enhancement for even-Z fragments is not restricted just to fission events with higher-than-average total kinetic energy. The anomalously high yield of fragments with mass 134 in ²³⁵U(n, f) as opposed to ²³³(n, f) is tentatively correlated with rapidly changing nuclear structure properties as a function of the mass of the complementary light (Z = 40) fragments.     

A search for rare types of fission induced in silver and bromine nuclei

Ternary and quaternary fission produced in silver and bromine nuclei have been studied withK5 nuclear emulsion exposed to 1.8 GeV/cK ⁻ beams. The frequency of the ternary events is found to be ∼0.08 of that of the binary events produced in the same volume of the emulsion. The range ratio and range distribution of the fission fragments are studied and the angles between each pair of the fragments are determined. Ranges are found to vary from 5 to 40μ with a maximum number lying between 5 and 10μ. The angles between the fission fragments are found to form a broad distribution extending from 40° to 180°. A few of the events have also been analysed to give them a possible identity. A possible case of quaternary fission has also been reported. This paper was presented at the Symposium on 3rd High Energy Physics held at Bhubaneswar during November 1976.     

Fission yields at different fission-product kinetic energies for thermal-neutron-induced fission of 239Pu

At the recoil spectrometer “Lohengrin” of the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, the yields of the light fission products from the thermal-neutron-induced fission of ²³⁹Pu were measured as a function of A, Z, the kinetic energy E and the ionic charge states q. The nuclear charge and mass distributions summed over all ionic charge states were determined for different light fissionproduct kinetic energies between 93 and 112 MeV. The proton odd-even effect which was measured to be (11.6 ± 0.6)% causes considerable fine structure in the yields. The average kinetic energy of even-Z elements in the light fission-product group is 0.3 ± 0.1 MeV larger than for odd-Z elements. The neutron odd-even effect is (6.5 ± 0.7)%. The comparison with previously published data ¹) for thermal-neutron-induced fission of ²³⁵U reveals a correlation between the proton odd-even effect in the yield and in the kinetic energy of the elements. The dependence of the proton odd-even effect on the fragmentation is very similar for ²³⁵U and ²³⁹Pu when it is considered as a function of the nuclear charge of the heavy fission products. The isobaric variances σ_z². for thermal-neutron fission of ²³⁵U and ²³⁹Pu coincide at all kinetic energies if the influence of the proton odd-even effect is averaged out. This supports the hypothesis that the magnitude of σ_z² is determined only by quantum-mechanical zero-point fluctuations. The influence of the spherical shells Z = 50 and N = 82 on the fragmentation is discussed.     

Fission-fragment energy correlation measurements for the spontaneous fission of 244Cm

Fission-fragment mass and kinetic energy distributions and their correlations have been measured for the spontaneous fission of ²⁴⁴Cm. About 3.54 × 10⁵ fission events were collected. The global mass distribution shows shoulders at μ_H ≈ 134 and μ_H ≈ 143?144. The peak/valley ratio is 86. The dip ΔE_K value at symmetry is 13.4 ± 1.5 MeV. In the yields for high-kinetic-energy selected events, the masses 139 and 144 dominate. The results of ²⁴⁴Cm are compared with the other isotopes of Cm and discussed in terms of the structures present in the potential energy surface of the fissioning system caused by the structures in the nascent fragments.     

Angular distributions of fragments in the fission of thorium induced by neutrons in the range 12–18 MeV

The angular distributions of fragments from neutron-induced fission of ²³²Th have been measured by means of glass detectors in the range 12.2 MeV ≦ E_n ≦ 18.3 MeV. The behaviour of the angular anisotropy is analysed and the contribution of the (n, 2n′f) process is discussed.     

Multiparameter studies of polar emission in 236U fission

The energy distributions and relative intensities of protons, deutrons, tritons and α-particles emitted along the fission axis during thermal neutron fission of ²³⁵U were measured simultaneously with both fission fragment energies. The mass distributions of fragments, the total kinetic energy (TKE), the dependence of the mean TKE on the fragment mass, as well as the mean kinetic energy dependence of polar particles on the fragment mass and energy were subsequently deduced from these data. Although some experimental results agree remarkably well with the hypothesis that polar particles are evaporated in flight from fission fragments, the general conclusion is that these particles are emitted according to some other mechanism.     

An experimental study of mass asymmetry in subbarrier photofission of 238U

A measurement of symmetric and asymmetric photofission yields of²³⁸U in the energy region from 4.5 MeV to 6.5 MeV has been performed. As γ-source the bremsstrahlung from a microtron has been used. The fission yields are obtained from β-counting of chemically separated isotopes ¹¹¹Ag, ¹¹⁵Cd and ¹¹⁷Cd for symmetric fission and ¹³⁹Ba for asymmetric fission. Some structures in the yield curves at about 5.3 MeV and a pronounced maximum at about 6.0 MeV in the valley-to-peak ratio in the fission fragment yield distribution are observed. It is suggested that these effects are connected with the double-hump fission barrier concept and indicate differences between fission barriers for symmetric and asymmetric fission.     

Search for coulomb fission induced by 84Kr ions on 238U

We have searched for Coulomb fission induced by ⁸⁴Kr ions on a ²³⁸U target at energies ranging from the interaction barrier down to 37 MeV below (408–458 MeV lab). No event attributed to Coulomb fission was detected; it was deduced that the cross section for this reaction is lower than 0.3 mb/sr near the interaction barrier. This value was compared to theoretical predictions. However, fission events originating from transfer reactions at the interaction barrier have been detected.     

A study of the de-excitation of primary fission fragments from the neutron-induced fission of 235U

Two separate three-dimensional experiments have been performed in which the energies of coincident fragment pairs and γ-rays or internal conversion electrons, emitted within ≈ 1.6 nsec of the thermal-neutron-induced fission of ²³⁵U, were recorded event by event. The fragment kinetic energies were used for mass identification. The self-consistency of the values of electron energy, γ-ray energy and fragment charge, and its agreement with X-ray selection data, were used to identify the atomic numbers of the fragments. The analysis of the γ-ray and conversion electron spectra resulted in the assignment of many transitions to new isotopes as well as improvement in or confirmation of many assignments from the ²⁵²Cf spontaneous fission data. Limited information on the multipolarities of the transitions in even nuclei is presented. The relative yield of electrons per fragment indicates softness to deformation in the mass region 100–110. Data are presented supporting the assignment of a 193 keV transition as the 2⁺ → 0⁺ transition in ⁹⁸Sr. An examination of the 2⁺ → 0⁺ level systematics of neighbouring even nuclei suggests a transition from vibrational to rotational behaviour in the light fragments between neutron numbers 58 and 60.     

Nuclear charge distribution of mass-separated isobars from thermal-neutron-induced fission of 235U

The nuclear charge distribution of fission products with mass numbers A = 90, 91, 94, 99, 100, 101 and 104 provided by the mass separator “Lohengrin” was measured. Adjacent elements in the group of the light fission products could be separated by their different energy loss in a carbon absorber. The Z-yields were found to be strongly dependent on the kinetic energy of the fission products. The widths of the nuclear charge distributions are very small, in general, and strongly dependent on A as well as on the kinetic energy. The influence of the neutron evaporation and odd-even effects are clearly detected. An asymmetric nuclear charge distribution was found for A = 104 indicating the suppression of fission fragments with Z = 43. The average nuclear charges of the fission products at their average kinetic energy are in good agreement with the results from measurements of the number of β-decays and K X-ray measurements. The average nuclear charge of the isobar A = 132 was measured at its average kinetic energy with a calibrated secondary electron detector to be Z = 51.14 ± 0.15 which is in very good agreement with the radiochemical results. Thus previous physical measurements indicating a large independent yield for the doubly magic nucleus ¹³²Sn could not be confirmed.     

裂变位垒参数的推荐和裂变位垒参数库

通过分析和计算锕系核裂变截面和全套中子反应截面获取了一组锕系核的裂变位垒参数.Fm)在此基础上,广泛收集实验裂变位垒参数,通过比对和评价,推荐了本组的129个核素(109Cd—255的实验裂变位垒参数.此外,对收集的不同裂变位垒参数作了分析与评价,推荐了7组实验和1组模型计算的裂变位垒参数,并组建了中国评价核参数库裂变位垒参数子库(CENPL FBPL). The fission barrier parameters for actinide nuclei were obtained by analysis and calculations of fission cross-sections and complete neutron reaction cross sections. A lot of experimental fission barrier parameters from different authors were collected. A set of fission barrier parameters for 129 nuclei ranging from~(109)Cd~( ) to~(255)Fm were recommended after performing comparisons, evaluations and systematics extrapolations for these extracted fission barrier parameters in model calculations of fissi...     

Study of pre-scission particle emissions and fission probability of the ~(178)W produced in fusion reactions

A dynamical model based on one-dimensional Langevin equations was used to calculate the average pre-fission multiplicities of neutrons, light charged particles, and the fission probability for compound nucleus178 W produced in fusion reactions. The pre-scission multiplicities of particles and fission probability are calculated and compared with the experimental data over a wide range of excitation energy. A modified wall and window dissipation with a reduction coefficient, ks, has been used in the Langevin equations for reproducing experimental data. It was shown that the results of the calculations are in good agreement with the experimental data by using values of ks in the range 0.24 ks 0.47.     

Fragment angular distributions in fission and fission-like reactions

Fragment angular distributions in fission is one of the oldest and well understood aspects of fission theory. However, recent heavy ion-induced fission and fission-like reactions have added a new dimension to this problem. We review here our present understanding of the fragment angular distribution theory in fission and fission-like reactions.     

25MeV/u 40)Ar+209Bi裂变反应研究

实验对25MeV/u ⁴⁰Ar+²⁰⁹Bi体系的裂变反应,利用线性动量转移的分窗选择不同的激发能,研究裂变动能分布和质量分布与热核初始激发能的关系.实验证实激发能小于380MeV时裂变总动能分布与低激发能复合核相似.激发能大于380MeV时,最可几动能呈现出随激发增加而增加,并出现高能非对称性,而且质量分布宽度随激发能增加而迅速增大.