Quantum mechanics

Spontaneous fission

Fission

Atomic physics

Neutron

Nuclear physics

Physics

Neutron emission

Energy (signal processing)

Kinetic energy

Physical Review C

Pre-neutron-emission fragment-mass and total-kinetic-energy distributions and the mass-energy correlations in the spontaneous-fission decay of 2.30-sec $^{252}\mathrm{No}$ have been deduced from measured energies of coincident fragment pairs using silicon surface-barrier detectors. The $^{252}\mathrm{No}$ for these measurements was produced in the $^{241}\mathrm{Am}(^{15}\mathrm{N}, 4n)$ reaction and deposited on 40-\ensuremath{\mu}g ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}2}$ carbon foils using a He-jet technique. From an analysis of 154 correlated fission events, the average pre-neutron-emission total-kinetic energy, $〈\mathrm{TKE}〉$, was found to be 202.4\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}1.2 MeV. The mass distribution is decidedly asymmetric, similar to that observed for $^{252}\mathrm{Cf}$ spontaneous fission, although a maximum in the $〈\mathrm{TKE}〉$ curve as a function of fragment mass occurs for near-symmetric mass divisions as it does for the heavier isotopes of fermium. The measured spontaneous-fission-decay branch...

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