Abstract

A study is performed on 14.5 MeV-neutron induced fission of 238U by means of three-parameter experiment in which the energies of both fragments and the time-of-flight of one fragment are measured. A mosaic-arrayed surface barrier detector of large sensitive area is used at the remote end of a flight tube. The pre- and post-neutron-emission fragment mass distributions are obtained, together with the average total kinetic energy of fragment as a function of its mass. The average number of neutrons emitted from an individual fragment and the average total number of emitted neutrons are also derived as a function of fragment mass. The results agree well with those calculated by the method developed in our laboratory for medium-excitation fission. The average number of emitted neutrons and the mass distribution of fission fragment are derived for the respective reactions of first-, second- and third-chance fission.

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