The angular anisotropy, $ omega$, of individual fission products produced from the $ sp{238} rm U( sp{12}$C, f) 119.9 MeV incident heavy-ion induced fission reaction, was modelled in terms of the angular momentum, l, conferred upon the intermediate nucleus. Evidence of incomplete momentum transfer led to a model treating fission products as being the result of two fission inducing processes: complete fusion resulting in compound nucleus formation, and an $ alpha$-transfer incomplete fusion process. The average angular anisotropies for each of the two processes were calculated to be, $ omega sb{ rm CF}$ = 2.57, and $ omega sb alpha$ = 1.71, respectively, which fit well to the experimental data. A new method was developed to estimate the total kinetic energy release of heavy-ion fission events leading to individual fission products from the above reaction. The average total $ langle$E$ sb{ rm k}{ rangle} approx 195$ MeV calculated using the new method is consistent with other experimental data, and with theories regarding heavy-ion induced fission.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.59911 |
| Date | January 1991 |
| Creators | Todd, Jamie R. D. (James Robert Drysdale) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Chemistry.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001237224, proquestno: AAIMM67461, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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