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AUTHOR
Yu.v. Pyatkov
Manifestations of Clustering in Fission of Excited Actinides
A new, graphical way of extracting important physical information from the total kinetic-energy—mass (TKE—M) distributions of the nuclear reaction products is presented. The resulting images indicate for the first time the presence of the Ni—Mo and Ge—Mo fission modes in the fission of Np nuclei at intermediate excitation energies.
Manifestation of fine structures in the fission fragment mass-energy distribution of the reaction
Methods of identifying structure peculiarities in two-dimensional distributions of experimental observables are discussed. Structures different from that produced by proton odd-even staggering were revealed for the first time in the mass-energy distribution of fission fragments in the 233 Uðnth; fÞ reaction. The new structures could presumably be linked with fission modes and collective vibrations of the fissioning system. r 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.