Published August 1981 | Version v1
Journal article

Mass distributions in the fission of medium-heavy and light nuclei

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Lund, and Department of Nuclear Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, Soelvegatan 14, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden

Description

The 600 MeV proton-induced fission process of Ce and Yb has been investigated with the double-kinetic-energy method. Mass distributions of these and other medium-heavy and light nuclei are compared to predictions of macroscopic models. No sign of the Businaro-Gallone point, below which the saddle point becomes unstable towards mass asymmetric deformations, is observed. For Ce a stable asymmetric mass distribution is found which may be explained in terms of shell structure effects

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev., C
Journal Volume
24
Journal Issue
2
Series
Phys. Rev., C.
Journal Page Range
769-772
ISSN
0556-2813