A Dynmical study of Fission Process and estimation of Prescission Neutron Multiplicity

Abstract

The dynamics of fission has been studied by solving Euler-Lagrange equation with dissipation generated through one and two body nuclear friction. The average kinetic energies of the fission fragments, prescission neutron multiplicities and the mean energies of the prescission neutrons have been calculated and compared with experimental values and they agree quite well. A single value of friction coefficient has been used to reproduce the experimental data for both symmetric and asymmetric splitting of the fissioning systems over a wide range of masses and excitation energies. It has been observed that a stronger friction is required in the saddle to scission region as compared to that in the ground state to saddle region.

Comments: 14 pages, ReVTeX, 7 Postscript figures, uses epsf, Physical Review C (in press). Revised manuscript includes new results, 3 new figures, added new references