1. Photo-fission at the S-DALINAC.
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Göök, Alf, Barday, Roman, Chernykh, Maksym, Eckardt, Christian, Eichhorn, Ralf, Enders, Joachim, Hambsch, Franz-Josef, von Neumann-Cosef, Peter, Oberstedt, Andreas, Oberstedt, Stephan, Poltoratska, Yuliya, Richter, Achim, and Wagner, Markus
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NUCLEAR fission ,ENERGY dissipation ,PARTICLES (Nuclear physics) ,NUCLEAR reactions ,NUCLEAR physics - Abstract
Experiments on photo-induced fission of
238 U and234 U using bremsstrahlung with endpoint energies between 6 MeV and 9 MeV have been carried out at the superconducting Darmstadt electron linear accelerator S-DALINAC. A twin Frisch grid ionization chamber has been used to determine energy and mass distributions via the 2E-technique. The fission fragment emission angle, which is used to correct for energy loss in the target and backing material for a correct determination of fragment energy and mass, is deduced from the time difference between cathode and anode signals. The research program including the foreseen search for parity violation in photo-induced fission and first experimental results will be presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2009
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