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XV.—Separation of the light particle in the “ternary” fission process*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

N. Feather
N. Feather
Affiliation:
Department of Natural Philosophy, University of Edinburgh.
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It is shown that the essential condition, energy-wise, for the emission of a light particle from a binary fission fragment, in the immediate post-scission stage, is that the fragment deformation must be capable of sudden partial collapse so as to release energy equal to the binding energy of the particle in the undeformed (unexcited) fragment together with an amount cancelling the mutual (electrostatic) potential energy of the particle and the residual deformed (excited) fragment at the instant of separation. On this basis the mean energy required for alpha-particle release in the thermal-neutron-induced ternary fission of 235U is estimated as 16·5 MeV, and it is concluded that those binary fissions which develop into alpha-particle-accompanied ternary fissions in this case are those in which, on the average, the total deformation-excitation energy of the fragments is some 10 MeV greater than the most probable value for all binary fissions. A qualitative discussion of the relative yields of other light-particle-accompanied modes is also given.

An Appendix contains a summary of comparable calculations based on the one-stage view of the ternary fission process.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 68 , Issue 3 , 1970 , pp. 229 - 244
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1970

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