Nuclear fission: a review of experimental advances and phenomenology

AN Andreyev, K Nishio… - Reports on Progress in …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In the last two decades, through technological, experimental and theoretical advances, the
situation in experimental fission studies has changed dramatically. With the use of advanced …

Compound-nuclear reaction cross sections from surrogate measurements

JE Escher, JT Harke, FS Dietrich, ND Scielzo… - Reviews of modern …, 2012 - APS
Nuclear reaction cross sections are important for a variety of applications in the areas of
astrophysics, nuclear energy, and national security. When these cross sections cannot be …

Incomplete fusion reactions using strongly and weakly bound projectiles

V Jha, VV Parkar, S Kailas - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
The phenomenon of incomplete fusion (ICF) using both the strongly and weakly bound
projectiles below an incident energy of≈ 10 MeV per nucleon is reviewed. Various reaction …

Fission of light actinides: (,) and (,) reactions

M Sin, R Capote, A Ventura, M Herman… - Physical Review C …, 2006 - APS
A model to describe fission on light actinides, which takes into account transmission through
a triple-humped fission barrier with absorption, is proposed. The fission probability derived …

[HTML][HTML] Fission fragments mass distributions of nuclei populated by the multinucleon transfer channels of the 18O+ 232Th reaction

R Léguillon, K Nishio, K Hirose, H Makii, I Nishinaka… - Physics Letters B, 2016 - Elsevier
It is shown that the multinucleon transfer reactions is a powerful tool to study fission of exotic
neutron-rich actinide nuclei, which cannot be accessed by particle-capture or heavy-ion …

Determining () cross sections for actinide nuclei indirectly: Examination of the surrogate ratio method

JE Escher, FS Dietrich - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2006 - APS
The validity of the surrogate ratio method for determining (n, f) cross sections for actinide
nuclei is examined. This method relates the ratio of two compound-nucleus reaction cross …

[HTML][HTML] Neutron-induced fission cross sections of short-lived actinides with the surrogate reaction method

G Kessedjian, B Jurado, M Aiche, G Barreau, A Bidaud… - Physics Letters B, 2010 - Elsevier
Neutron-induced fission cross sections for 242,243 Cm and 241Am have been obtained with
the surrogate reaction method. Recent results for the neutron-induced cross section of …

Low energy nuclear physics with active targets and time projection chambers

D Bazin, T Ahn, Y Ayyad, S Beceiro-Novo… - Progress in Particle and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This article aims at covering various low energy nuclear physics themes that can benefit
from taking advantage of active targets and time projection chambers. They are naturally …

Transfer reactions in inverse kinematics: An experimental approach for fission investigations

C Rodríguez-Tajes, F Farget, X Derkx, M Caamaño… - Physical Review C, 2014 - APS
Inelastic and multinucleon transfer reactions between a 238 U beam, accelerated at 6.14
MeV/u, and a 12 C target were used for the production of neutron-rich, fissioning systems …

[HTML][HTML] High performance discharges in the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment with liquid lithium walls

JC Schmitt, RE Bell, DP Boyle, B Esposti, R Kaita… - Physics of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The first-ever successful operation of a tokamak with a large area (40% of the total plasma
surface area) liquid lithium wall has been achieved in the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment …