Search for instantaneous radiation near the instant of break momentum of various fissioning nuclear systems at low excitation energies |
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Authors: | Vorobyev A S Val’ski G V Gagarskii A M Guseva I S Petrov G A Petrova V I Serebrin A Yu Sokolov V E Shcherbakov O A |
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Institution: | 1.St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gatchina, Leningrad oblast, 188300, Russia ; |
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Abstract: | The main results of studying the properties of “instantaneous” neutrons and γ photons during the fission of 233, 235U(n
th, f) and 239Pu(n
th, f) nuclei and spontaneous fission of 252Cf, which were performed on the WWR-M reactor at the St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences,
are presented. Along with obtaining the main characteristics of the instantaneous radiation from fission fragments, these
studies were also aimed at gaining deeper insight into such exotic processes as the emission of break neutrons and γ photons
from a fissioning nucleus near the break point. These investigations were performed on different experimental setups using
different analytical methods. This approach allowed us not only to find but also to reduce to minimum possible systematic
effects. The yields of break neutrons were found to be about (5–7) × 10−2 of the total number of neutrons per 233, 235U(n, f) fission event and approximately twice as much for 239Pu(n, f) and 252Cf. The coefficient of T-odd asymmetry for γ photons is in agreement with the estimate obtained on the assumption that the observed effect is mainly
related to the γ photons emitted by excited fragments with highly oriented angular momenta. This fact gave grounds to conclude
that the desired break γ photons cannot be reliably selected (within the obtained experimental accuracy) against the much
larger background of γ photons from fission fragments. |
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