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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 146, 2017
ND 2016: International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology
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Article Number | 04018 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Fission Physics and Observables | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714604018 | |
Published online | 13 September 2017 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714604018
Fission product yield measurements using monoenergetic photon beams
1 Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
2 Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham NC 27708, USA
3 Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
a e-mail: krishi@tunl.duke.edu; krishichayan@gmail.com
Published online: 13 September 2017
Measurements of fission products yields (FPYs) are an important source of information on the fission process. During the past couple of years, a TUNL-LANL-LLNL collaboration has provided data on the FPYs from quasi monoenergetic neutron-induced fission on 235U, 238U, and 239Pu and has revealed an unexpected energy dependence of both asymmetric fission fragments at energies below 4 MeV. This peculiar FPY energy dependence was more pronounced in neutron-induced fission of 239Pu. In an effort to understand and compare the effect of the incoming probe on the FPY distribution, we have carried out monoenergetic photon-induced fission experiments on the same 235U, 238U, and 239Pu targets. Monoenergetic photon beams of Eγ = 13.0 MeV were provided by the HIγS facility, the world's most intense γ-ray source. In order to determine the total number of fission events, a dual-fission chamber was used during the irradiation. These irradiated samples were counted at the TUNL's low-background γ-ray counting facility using high efficient HPGe detectors over a period of 10 weeks. Here we report on our first ever photofission product yield measurements obtained with monoenegetic photon beams. These results are compared with neutron-induced FPY data.
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