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Mass-yield distribution of fission products from photo-fission of natPb induced by 2.5 GeV bremsstrahlung

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The mass-yield distribution of fission products in the 2.5GeV bremsstrahlung-induced fission of natPb has been measured by using a recoil catcher and an off-line \( \gamma\) -ray spectrometric technique in the 2.5GeV electron linac at the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory. The determination of mass-yield distribution involves measurement of cumulative yields of 27 fission products and independent yields of 15 fission products in the photo-fission of natPb . It was found that the mass-yield distribution of fission products in natPb is symmetric with an average mass of 94±0.5 and a full-width at half-maximum of 55±2.0 mass units. The present data along with the literature data in the 50-85MeV bremsstrahlung-induced fission of natPb and 209Bi as well as the data at 2.5GeV for 209Bi show that the average mass of the mass-yield distributions in the bremsstrahlung-induced fission of natPb and 209Bi decreases from 102.63±0.51 at 50-85MeV to 94.5±0.5 at 2.5GeV. The full-width at half-maximum of the mass-yield distribution increases from about 21.5±1.44 mass units at 50-85MeV to 53±2 mass units at 2.5GeV. These observations in the 50MeV to 2.5GeV bremsstrahlung-induced fission of natPb and 209Bi have been explained from the point of view of increase in multi-chance fission probability with increasing excitation energy. The role of the fissility parameter (Z F 2/A F) on the full-width at half-maximum is also discussed.

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    Haladhara Naik, Sarbjit Singh, Ashok Goswami & Vijay Kumar Manchanda

  2. Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, 400085, Trombay, Mumbai, India

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  5. Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 790-784, Pohang, Republic of Korea

    Moo-Hyun Cho, In Soo Ko & Won Namkung

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Naik, H., Singh, S., Goswami, A. et al. Mass-yield distribution of fission products from photo-fission of natPb induced by 2.5 GeV bremsstrahlung. Eur. Phys. J. A 47, 37 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2011-11037-0

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