Prompt gamma-ray emission from fission of239Pu by resonance neutrons I

Gamma-ray spectra from²³⁹Pu(n,f) reaction were measured with the gamma spectrometer on the pulsed reactor IBR-30. The fast 19-section ionization chamber with 1.6 g of²³⁹Pu targets was used. The fission gamma-rays within the 32 ns time window were measured using a Ge(Li) detector. Based on the measured gamma-ray spectrum in the (0.1–1.8) MeV interval, the total number of emitted-quanta-multiplicity N ^tot and total energy of -quanta per fission event, E ^tot , were calculated. The results were 7.0±0.6/fission and 6.8±0.5 MeV/fission respectively.This work is supported in part by the Grant Agency of the Slovak Academy of Science under grant GA-SAV 517/1992.