Neutron-induced reaction cross sections of short-lived nuclei are crucial for our understanding of nuclear fission and nuclear structure, with important applications for nuclear astrophysics and a wide range of nuclear technology. However, direct measurements of these cross sections are extremely challenging, or even impossible, due to the difficulty of producing and handling the required...
The study of particle (n, p, α, and γ) emission in fission phenomena is crucial to understand the involved timescales, the energy dissipation, and the underlying mechanisms of the process. Among these, neutron emission is one of the most experimentally exploited process. Earlier studies of neutron-fragment (n-f), neutron-neutron (n–n) correlations were primarily focused on scission neutrons....
The neutron-rich A~100 region is known for a sudden change in nuclear shape deformation from nearly spherical to highly-deformed as A goes from 97 to 99. The most severe change (as measured by the electric quadrupole deformation parameter) seems to occur in the region centered on 98Y. To better understand this phenomenon, the magnetic moments (another probe of nuclear deformation) of the 2−1...
