Slow-Neutron Ternary Fission of Uranium-235

Nature ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 168 (4275) ◽  
pp. 590-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. W. TITTERTON
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Author(s):  
M P Roriz ◽  
M Lugaro ◽  
C B Pereira ◽  
N A Drake ◽  
S Junqueira ◽  
...  

Abstract Barium (Ba) stars are chemically peculiar stars that display in their atmospheres the signature of the slow neutron-capture (the s-process) mechanism that occurs in asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, a main contributor to the cosmic abundances. The observed chemical peculiarity in these objects is not due to self-enrichment, but to mass transfer between the components of a binary system. The atmospheres of Ba stars are therefore excellent astrophysical laboratories providing strong constraints for the nucleosynthesis of the s-process in AGB stars. In particular, rubidium (Rb) is a key element for the s-process diagnostic because it is sensitive to the neutron density and therefore its abundance can reveal the main neutron source for the s-process in AGB stars. We present Rb abundances for a large sample of 180 Ba stars from high resolution spectra (R = 48000), and we compare the observed [Rb/Zr] ratios with theoretical predictions from AGB s-process nucleosynthesis models. The target Ba stars in this study display [Rb/Zr] <0, showing that Rb was not efficiently produced by the activation of branching points. Model predictions from the Monash and FRUITY data sets of low-mass (≲ 4 M⊙) AGB stars are able to cover the Rb abundances observed in the target Ba stars. These observations indicate that the 13C(α,n)16O reaction is the main neutron source of the s-process in the low-mass AGB companions of the observed Ba stars. We have not found in the present study candidate companion for IR/OH massive AGB stars.



1952 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. L. Sailor ◽  
L. B. Borst
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Polymer ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 1010-1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu.B. Mel'nichenko ◽  
V.V. Klepko ◽  
V.V. Shilov


1960 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 481-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rainwater ◽  
W. W. Havens ◽  
J. S. Desjardins ◽  
J. L. Rosen
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1963 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1266-1270
Author(s):  
Yu. Yu. Glazkov ◽  
B. G. Dubovskii ◽  
G. A. Ilyasova ◽  
V. I. Kozlov ◽  
V. V. Smelov ◽  
...  


2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 151-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. SKALSKI

We discuss the effect of kinetic energy of the relative motion becoming spurious for separate fragments on the selfconsistent mean-field fission barriers. The treatment of the relative motion in the cluster model is contrasted with the necessity of a simpler and approximate approach in the mean-field theory. A scheme of the energy correction to the Hartree-Fock is proposed. The results obtained with the effective Skyrme interaction SLy 6 show that the correction, previously estimated as ~ 8 MeV in A = 70 - 100 nuclei, amounts to 4 MeV in the medium heavy nucleus 198 Hg and to null in 238 U . However, the corrected barrier implies a shorter fission half-life of the latter nucleus. The same effect is expected to lower barriers for multipartition (i.e. ternary fission, etc) and make hyperdeformed minima less stable.



1972 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 1185-1196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Makio Ohkubo ◽  
Yutaka Nakajima ◽  
Akira Asami ◽  
Toyojiro Fuketa
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