Crystal blocking measurements of the time delay of fission induced by S32, Ti48, and Ni58 bombardment of W

J. U. Andersen, J. Chevallier, J. S. Forster, S. A. Karamian, C. R. Vane, J. R. Beene, A. Galindo-Uribarri, J. Gomez Del Campo, H. F. Krause, E. Padilla-Rodal, D. Radford, C. Broude, F. Malaguti, A. Uguzzoni

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Abstract

The time delay in fission induced by bombardment of W with 180MeV S32, 240-255MeV Ti48, and 315-375MeV Ni58 has been measured by observation of crystal blocking. There is a clear narrowing and a small increase in the minimum yield of the angular dips for fission compared with scaled dips for elastically scattered ions. This is interpreted as a fission delay of about 2as, only weakly dependent on energy and atomic number. The delay is longer by 1 to 2orders of magnitude than obtained from standard interpretations of measurements of prescission neutrons and giant-dipole-resonance gamma rays and from calculations of the nuclear dynamics in heavy-ion reactions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number162502
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume99
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 15 2007

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