Cluster description of cold (neutronless) alpha ternary fission of 252Cf

  • A coplanar three body cluster model (two deformed fragments and an alpha particle) similar to the model used for the description of cold binary fission was employed for the description of cold (neutronless) alpha accompanied fission of 252Cf. No preformation factors were considered. The three body potential was computed with the help of a double folding potential generated by the M3Y-NN effective interaction and realistic fragment ground state deformations. From the minimum action principle, the alpha particle trajectory equations, the corresponding ternary barriers, and an approximate WKB expression for the barrier penetrability are obtained. The relative cold ternary yields were calculated as the ratio of the penetrability of a given ternary fragmentation and the sum of the penetrabilities of all possible cold ternary fragmentations. Different scenarios were considered depending on the trajectories of the fragments. It was shown that two regions of cold fragmentation exist, a deformed one corresponding to large fragment deformations and a spherical one around 132Sn, similarly to the case of the cold binary fission of 252Cf. We have shown that for the scenario corresponding to the Lagrange point, where all forces acting on the alpha particle are in equilibrium, the cold alpha ternary yields of 252Cf are strongly correlated with the cold binary yields of the daughter nucleus 248Cm into the same heavy fragments. For all other scenarios only the spherical splittings are favored. We concluded that due to the present available experimental data on cold alpha ternary yields only the Lagrange scenario could describe the cold alpha ternary fission of 252Cf.

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Author:Aurel Săndulescu, Florin Cârstoiu, Ionel Bulboacă, Walter GreinerGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-30257
URL:http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRC/v60/e044613
Parent Title (German):Physical Review. C
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2006/07/14
Year of first Publication:1999
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2006/07/14
Volume:60
Issue:044613
Page Number:13
Source:Physical Review C 60, 044613 (1999), ©1999 The American Physical Society, http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRC/v60/e044613
HeBIS-PPN:266607861
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
PACS-Classification:20.00.00 NUCLEAR PHYSICS / 21.00.00 Nuclear structure (for nucleon structure, see 14.20.Dh Properties of protons and neutrons; 13.40.-f for electromagnetic processes and properties; 13.60.Hb for deep-inelastic structure functions) / 21.60.-n Nuclear structure models and methods / 21.60.Gx Cluster models
20.00.00 NUCLEAR PHYSICS / 23.00.00 Radioactive decay and in-beam spectroscopy / 23.70.+j Heavy-particle decay
20.00.00 NUCLEAR PHYSICS / 25.00.00 Nuclear reactions: specific reactions / 25.85.-w Fission reactions / 25.85.Ca Spontaneous fission
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht