Nuclear reactions in heavy elements

This handbook is an inclusive survey of cross-sections of interactions of radiation (α- rays, neutrons, charged particles) with nuclei of heavy metals, together with data on fission energies, mass distribution and yields of fission products, and radiation emitted in fission. The information is given under the headings: Interactions of radiation with heavy nuclei (neutron cross-sections, cross-sections for photonuclear reactions, cross-sections for interactions of charged particles with heavy nuclei). Nuclear fission (general characteristics of the fission process, spontaneous fission, yields and characteristics of fission fragments from binary fission of heavy nuclei, yields and characteristics of products from ternary fission of heavy nuclei, fission neutrons, electromagnetic radiation in nuclear fission). (U.K.)