Search for decay of Te with a novel recoil-decay scintillation detector

Xiao, Y.*; Go, S.*; Grzywacz, R.*; Orlandi, R.; Andreyev, A. N.; Asai, Masato; Bentley, M. A.*; de Angelis, G.*; Gross, C. J.*; Hausladen, P.*; et al.

Physical Review C, 100(3), p.034315_1 - 034315_8, 2019/09

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.100.034315

Role of multichance fission in the description of fission-fragment mass distributions at high energies

Hirose, Kentaro; Nishio, Katsuhisa; Tanaka, Shoya*; Lguillon, R.*; Makii, Hiroyuki; Nishinaka, Ichiro*; Orlandi, R.; Tsukada, Kazuaki; Smallcombe, J.*; Vermeulen, M. J.; et al.

Physical Review Letters, 119(22), p.222501_1 - 222501_6, 2017/12

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.222501

Fission-fragment mass distributions were measured for U, Np and Pu populated in the excitation-energy range from 10 to 60 MeV by multi-nucleon transfer channels in the reaction O + U at the JAEA tandem facility. Among them, the data for U and Np were observed for the first time. It was found that the mass distributions for all the studied nuclides maintain a double-humped shape up to the highest measured energy in contrast to expectations of predominantly symmetric fission due to the washing out of nuclear shell effects. From a comparison with the dynamical calculation based on the fluctuation-dissipation model, this behavior of the mass distributions was unambiguously attributed to the effect of multi-chance fission.

Measurement of high-energy prompt -rays from neutron induced fission of U-235

Makii, Hiroyuki; Nishio, Katsuhisa; Hirose, Kentaro; Orlandi, R.; Lguillon, R.; Ogawa, Tatsuhiko; Soldner, T.*; Hambsch, F.-J.*; Astier, A.*; Pollitt, A.*; et al.

EPJ Web of Conferences, 146, p.04036_1 - 04036_4, 2017/09

https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714604036

The measurement of the prompt fission -ray spectrum (PFGS) is quite important to study the de-excitation process of neutron-rich fission fragments as well as to generate data required to design a generation-IV reactors. The PFGS measured for spontaneous fission of Cf shows a broad hump at energies more than 8 MeV. This is interpreted as a giant dipole resonance (GDR) of the fragments centered around 15 MeV. To understand how the GDR is populated in the fission process, one needs to measure the PFGS for the reactions with the mass yields different from the spontaneous fission of Cf, such as (n,f). The measurements of the PFGS for (n,f), however, are limited less than 9 MeV even in the recent experiment. This prompts us to make a new measurement to extend the know PFGS up to 20 MeV. The measurement has been carried out at the PF1B beam line of Institut Laue-Langevin. In this contribution we will present the results obtained the measurement.

Fission fragments mass distributions of nuclei populated by the multinucleon transfer channels of the O + Th reaction

Lguillon, R.; Nishio, Katsuhisa; Hirose, Kentaro; Makii, Hiroyuki; Nishinaka, Ichiro*; Orlandi, R.; Tsukada, Kazuaki; Smallcombe, J.*; Chiba, Satoshi*; Aritomo, Yoshihiro*; et al.

Physics Letters B, 761, p.125 - 130, 2016/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.010

value in Kr

Rgis, J.-M.*; Jolie, J.*; Saed-Samii, N.*; Warr, N.*; Pfeiffer, M.*; Blanc, A.*; Jentschel, M.*; Kster, U.*; Mutti, P.*; Soldner, T.*; et al.

Physical Review C, 90(6), p.067301_1 - 067301_4, 2014/12

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.90.067301

Mass asymmetric fission of a nucleus produced in the Li + W reaction

Tamura, Nobuyuki; Hirose, Kentaro; Nishio, Katsuhisa; Nishinaka, Ichiro; Makii, Hiroyuki; Orlandi, R.; Lguillon, R.; Smallcombe, J.; Andreyev, A. N.; Otsuki, Tsutomu*; et al.

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Study for fission using multi-nucleon transfer reaction

Nishio, Katsuhisa; Hirose, Kentaro; Lguillon, R.; Makii, Hiroyuki; Nishinaka, Ichiro; Orlandi, R.; Smallcombe, J.; Chiba, Satoshi*; Araki, Shohei*; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; et al.

no journal, , 

Measurements of prompt fission -rays from the reaction U ()

Makii, Hiroyuki; Nishio, Katsuhisa; Nishinaka, Ichiro; Hirose, Kentaro; Orlandi, R.; Smallcombe, J.; Lguillon, R.; Sekimoto, Shun*; Takamiya, Koichi*; Otsuki, Tsutomu*

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The Japanese government has a plan to remove the melted reactor fuel for the full deconstruction of Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plants, which have been seriously damaged in the Great East Japan Earthquake. The removal of the fuel must be carried out without reaching the criticality of the fuel. However, it is quite difficult to detect prompt neutrons accompanied by fission to monitor the increased fission rate due to the background -rays from the fission products in the fuel. On the other hand, the spontaneous fission of Cf shows a high energy -ray component around = 14 MeV, which is significantly larger than that for the background -rays from the fission products. We are proposing to develop a system based on the use of the high energy -rays accompanied by fission. In order to design the system, it is essential to know the spectrum of prompt fission -rays up to more than 8 MeV for thermal neutron-induced fission of U. However, no data are available in the energy range larger than 7 MeV. This prompted us to make a new measurement to extend the known prompt ray energy spectrum up to 20 MeV. In this contribution, we will present the results of a test experiment to know the measuring condition such as background -ray yield and spectrum.

Fission study of actinide nuclei using multi-nucleon transfer reactions

Lguillon, R.; Nishio, Katsuhisa; Hirose, Kentaro; Makii, Hiroyuki; Nishinaka, Ichiro; Orlandi, R.; Ishii, Tetsuro; Tsukada, Kazuaki; Aritomo, Yoshihiro*; Chiba, Satoshi*; et al.

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Fission study by multi-nucleon transfer reaction at JAEA

Hirose, Kentaro; Nishio, Katsuhisa; Lguillon, R.; Makii, Hiroyuki; Nishinaka, Ichiro; Orlandi, R.; Smallcombe, J.; Ishii, Tetsuro; Tsukada, Kazuaki; Asai, Masato; et al.

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