Published 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Is the four-phonon G.D.R. implicated in fission?

  • 1. Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Nice, 06108 Nice cedex 2, France (France)

Description

The non-fissility with thermal neutrons of the 238 uranium system results from the too small clusterization energy E(cl) created when the system changes into 208 lead + 31 neon or 209 lead + 30 neon. Indeed, it becomes fissile only when E(cl), at the most equal to 49.97 MeV at E(n) = 0, reaches 51.47 MeV at E(n) = 1.5 MeV. We suggest that this fissility does not simply result from a core-cluster collision destroying the lead core, since E(cl) is too small for overcoming the corresponding Coulomb barrier of 88.33 MeV, but rather from a combined shifting of the 82 protons of the lead core against the whole neutron phase, i.e. from a four-phonon giant dipole resonance, since E(cl) reaches about four times the G.D.R. energy of 238 uranium. We suggest that this 4-phonon G.D.R. triggers the nucleon phase of the fission reaction, a phase characterized by an uncertainty in the energy as great as 3.87 GeV, the ephemeral disappearance of any proton charge, and a lifetime of 0.17 ys.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
Journal Issue
Frankfurt 2014 issue
Series
Also available as printed version: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft v. 49(1)
Journal Page Range
[1 p.]
ISSN
0420-0195
CODEN
VDPEAZ

Conference

Title
2014 DPG Spring meeting with the divisions of physics education and physics of hadrons and nuclei. Industry- and book exhibition
Original Conference Title
DPG-Fruehjahrstagung 2014 der Fachverbaende Didaktik der Physik, Physik der Hadronen und Kerne. Industrie- und Buchausstellung
Dates
17-21 Mar 2014
Place
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

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Notes
Session: HK 46.11 Do 16:00; No further information available