Ternary Fission of Heavy Compound Nuclei in Thorite Track Detectors
- 18 March 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 143 (3), 943-946
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.143.943
Abstract
A thorite (ThSi) track detector has been used to study fission induced by reactions between 400-MeV Ar ions and Th nuclei in the detector. Both binary and ternary fissions were observed. The cross section for binary fission is 3.0±0.4 b. The angular distribution of fragments from the ternary fissions indicates compound-nucleus formation. The cross section for ternary fission is approximately 1/30 of that for binary fission.
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