Event-by-Event Multiplicity Correlations in $^{252}$Cf(sf)
| Autor: | Marin, Stefano, Protopopescu, Vladimir A., Vogt, Ramona, Marcath, Matthew J., Okar, M. Stephan, Hua, Michael Y., Talou, Patrick, Schuster, Patricia F., Clarke, Shaun D., Pozzi, Sara A. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.nima.2020.163907 |
| Popis: | Excited nuclear fragments are emitted during nuclear fission. The de-excitation of these fission fragments takes place as sequential emission of neutrons followed by photons. A correlation between neutron and photon multiplicities accompanying fission is thus expected. Fission event generators based on established statistical nuclear physics models predict a negative event-by-event correlation in neutron-photon multiplicity. A survey of published experimental results of an event-by-event covariance between the neutron and photon multiplicities emitted following the spontaneous fission of $^{252}$Cf is presented. Analytic unfolding expressions are developed in this work to determine the bias introduced by background sources, particle misclassification, pulse pileup, and inelastic photon production. The published experimental data are re-analyzed using these unfolding techniques and are found to be in qualitative agreement with the predictions of model-based calculations. In particular, we have concluded that there exists a significant event-by-event neutron-photon emission competition following the spontaneous fission of $^{252}$Cf. Comment: 8pages, 3 figures, 2 table |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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