Title
Coulomb and even-odd effects in cold and super-asymmetric fragmentation for thermal neutron induced fission of <sup>235</sup>U
Date Issued
07 July 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
American Institute of Physics Inc.
Abstract
Even-odd effects of the maximal total kinetic energy (Kmax) as a function of charge (Z) and mass (A) of fragments from thermal neutron induced fission of actinides are questioned by other authors. In this work, visiting old results on thermal neutron induced fission of 235U, those even-odd effects are reconfirmed. The cases seeming to contradict even-odd effects are interpreted with the Coulomb effect hypothesis. According to Coulomb effect hypothesis, Kmax is equal to the Coulomb interaction energy of the most compact scission configuration. As a consequence, between two isobaric charge splits with similar Q-values, the more asymmetrical one will get the more compact scission configuration and then it will reach the higher Kmax-value. In some cases, the more asymmetrical charge split corresponds, by coincidence, to an odd charge split; consequently its higher Kmax-value may be misinterpreted as anti-even-odd effect. Another experimental result reported in the literature is the increasing of even-odd effects on charge distribution on the more asymmetrical fragmentations region. In this region, the difference between Kmax and Q-values increases with asymmetry, which means that the corresponding scission configuration needs higher total deformation energy to occur. Higher deformation energy of the fragments implies lower free energy to break nucleon pairs. Consequently, in the asymmetric fragmentation region, the even-odd effects of the distribution of proton number and neutron number must increase with asymmetry.
Volume
1753
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física nuclear
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84984578758
Resource of which it is part
AIP Conference Proceedings
ISBN of the container
9780735414112
Conference
11th Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications, LASNPA 2015 Medellin 30 November 2015 through 4 December 2015
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