Fission dynamics simplified

Helmut Hofmann; J. Rayford Nix

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(83)90776-1

Fission dynamics simplified

Helmut Hofmann, J. Rayford Nix

Department of Physics

Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division

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Abstract

By use of Kramer's stationary solution of the Folker-Planck equation for the inverted oscillator, we derive analytic expressions as functions of nuclear temperature and dissipation coefficient for several quantities of interest in the dynamics of nuclear fission. These include the mean time from the saddle point to scission, the mean pre-scission fission-fragment kinetic energy and the contribution to the variance in the fission-fragment kinetic energy resulting from fluctuations in the fission degree of freedom.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	117-120
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	122
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(83)90776-1
State	Published - 3 Mar 1983

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