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 language | English |
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Article number | 162502 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 99 |
Issue number | 16 |
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State | Published - Oct 15 2007 |