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dc.contributor.advisorPreston, M. A.-
dc.contributor.authorBrubaker, Calvin David-
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-25T18:54:36Z-
dc.date.available2015-06-25T18:54:36Z-
dc.date.issued1960-10-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11375/17626-
dc.description.abstractNo abstract provided.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectthermal neutron fissionen_US
dc.subjectU235en_US
dc.subjectneutron emissionen_US
dc.subjectexcitation energy distributionsen_US
dc.subjectevaporation theoryen_US
dc.subjectprimary fragment velocitiesen_US
dc.titleCalculations of Neutron Emission in the Thermal Neutron Fission of U235en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPhysicsen_US
dc.description.degreetypeThesisen_US
dc.description.degreeMaster of Science (MSc)en_US
dc.description.layabstractScope and contents: The probability of fission as a function of primary fragment velocities has been obtained by removing the neutron emission and instrumental dispersions from the velocities determined by Stein with time-of-flight techniques for the thermal neutron fission of u235. Each velocity was increased by 0.69% to make the average kinetic energy per fission agree with the calorimetric value of 167.1 Mev. Excitation energy distributions were obtained by using the primary fragment masses given by Cameron and assuming that the most probable charge distribution for a given mass ratio i s that which leads to the greatest energy release. Evaporation theory was used to determine the number of prompt neutrons emitted. When the excitation energy is divided equally between the fragments and a nuclear temperature of 0.59 Mev is used, the average number of neutrons emitted is 2.95 per fission.en_US
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