KINETIC ENERGIES OF FRAGMENTS IN NEUTRON - INDUCED NUCLEAR FISSION


Andrej A. Goverdovsky, Boris D. Kuzminov, Vjacheslav F. Mitrofanov, Aleksej I. Sergachev

Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk, USSR

The measurement results of the kinetic energy of fragments in neutron-induced nuclear fission are given in this paper. A relation of the detected peculiarities of the kinetic energy of fragments with vibrational resonances and shell effects is discussed here.

KEYWORDS: fission, kinetic energy, neutron, shell structura, saddle point, scission point, threshold