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View SchemaPrompt muon-induced fission: a sensitive probe for nuclear energy dissipation and fission dynamics
| Authors | Volker E. Oberacker, A. Sait Umar, Feodor F. Karpeshin |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/0403087 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0403087 |
Abstract
Following the formation of an excited muonic atom, inner shell transitions may proceed without photon emission by inverse internal conversion, i.e. the muonic excitation energy is transferred to the nucleus. In actinides, the 2p -> 1s and the 3d -> 1s muonic transitions result in excitation of the nuclear giant dipole and giant quadrupole resonances, respectively, which act as doorway states for fission. The nuclear excitation energy is typically 6.5 - 10 MeV. Because the muon lifetime is long compared to the timescale of prompt nuclear fission, the motion of the muon in the Coulomb field of the fissioning nucleus may be utilized to learn about the dynamics of fission.
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