Published June 16, 1980 | Version v1
Journal article

Muon-induced fission as a probe for fission dynamics

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235

Description

Fission of 242Pu induced by radiationless muonic transitions is studied. By solving the time-dependent Schroedinger equation for the muonic wave function in an axially symmetric spatial grid, one finds an observable dependence of the muonic final state: both in the localization of the muon and its excitation probability: on fission dynamics. More refined studies should allow one to extract information about the friction coefficient in fission

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Volume
44
Journal Issue
24
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
1576-1579
ISSN
0031-9007