Scission configuration of U-239 from yields and kinetic information of fission fragments
Journal article, 2020

The simultaneous measurement of the isotopic fission-fragment yields and fission-fragment velocities of U-239 has been performed for the first time. The U-239 fissioning system was produced in one-neutron transfer reactions between a U-238 beam at 5.88 MeV/nucleon and a Be-9 target. The combination of inverse kinematics at low energy and the use of the VAMOS + + spectrometer at the GANIL facility allows the isotopic identification of the full fission-fragment distribution and their velocity in the reference frame of the fissioning system. The proton and neutron content of the fragments at scission, their total kinetic and total excitation energy, as well as the neutron multiplicity were determined. Information from the scission point configuration is obtained from these observables and the correlation between them. The role of the octupole-deformed proton and neutron shells in the fission-fragment production is discussed.
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Physical Review C

24699985 (ISSN) 24699993 (eISSN)

Vol. 101 Issue 3 art. no 034609

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Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation

Subatomic Physics

Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

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10.1103/PhysRevC.101.034609

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