Conveners
Photon-induced Fission
- Volker Werner (TU Darmstadt)
Although fission was discovered over 80 years ago and has seen widespread usage, a complete microscopic description of the fission process is yet to be achieved. One important contribution towards that objective is high-precision experimental data. In particular, nuclear fission induced by quasi-monochromatic polarized photons provides unique information due to their selectivity on...
Photonuclear reactions offer a unique probe of the nucleus due to lack of hadronic processes in the entrance channel. This is of particular interest for studying the prompt neutrons emitted during fission, which is more typically initiated with neutrons. Two types of measurements of prompt neutrons emitted from photon-induced fission will be presented.
At photon beam energies between about...
Nuclear fission plays a role in many applications such as reactor technology and national security as well as several areas of fundamental nuclear physics. Despite its importance, the complexity of the fission process has precluded a comprehensive theoretical description of this process. To better constrain models of fission, there is a need for experimental data on the properties of fission...
The Bohr Hypothesis, one of the most fundamental assumptions in nuclear fission theory, states that the decay of a compound nucleus with a given excitation energy, spin and parity is independent of its formation. Using fission product yields (FPYs) as a sensitive probe, we have performed novel high-precision tests of the combined effects of the entrance channel, spin, and parity on the fission...
The on-going developments in laser acceleration of charged particles and the production of $\gamma$-rays and neutrons as secondary beams with ultra-high fluxes of particles and radiation provide a basis for novel nuclear physics experiments. These fluxes are very short in both space and time and exceed the capabilities of standard particle accelerators by orders of magnitude. They are...
