Even though fission was discovered 80 years ago and its first applications were realized only a few years after its discovery, today many aspects of the fission process still remain unclear being a challenge for the scientific community. The accurate description of the fission process is important not only for the large variety of applications of fission including energy production, nuclear waste management, industry, medicine etc., but also for a fundamental understanding of nuclear physics.
In this context the theoretical and experimental investigations of the prompt neutron and ?-ray emission in fission play a crucial role not only for the elucidation of the aspects still unclear but also to improve and develop multiple applications of the fission process.
This Research Topic collects both theoretical and experimental investigations concerning the phenomena and mechanisms governing the prompt emission in fission. Some topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- what is happening at scission (or even before scission) focusing on the energy partition in fission which is crucial in the treatment of neutron and ?-ray emission from fission fragments at their full acceleration as well as before (at scission and/or during their acceleration),
- refined models and accurate experimental data providing all observables characterizing the fission fragments (especially their mass and kinetic energy distributions) and the prompt neutron and ?-ray emission
- experimental and theoretical investigations concerning the independent and cumulative fission product yields and kinetic energy distributions of post-neutron fragments
Even though fission was discovered 80 years ago and its first applications were realized only a few years after its discovery, today many aspects of the fission process still remain unclear being a challenge for the scientific community. The accurate description of the fission process is important not only for the large variety of applications of fission including energy production, nuclear waste management, industry, medicine etc., but also for a fundamental understanding of nuclear physics.
In this context the theoretical and experimental investigations of the prompt neutron and ?-ray emission in fission play a crucial role not only for the elucidation of the aspects still unclear but also to improve and develop multiple applications of the fission process.
This Research Topic collects both theoretical and experimental investigations concerning the phenomena and mechanisms governing the prompt emission in fission. Some topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- what is happening at scission (or even before scission) focusing on the energy partition in fission which is crucial in the treatment of neutron and ?-ray emission from fission fragments at their full acceleration as well as before (at scission and/or during their acceleration),
- refined models and accurate experimental data providing all observables characterizing the fission fragments (especially their mass and kinetic energy distributions) and the prompt neutron and ?-ray emission
- experimental and theoretical investigations concerning the independent and cumulative fission product yields and kinetic energy distributions of post-neutron fragments
