NEUTRON EMISSION FROM SPONTANEOUS FISSION OF HEAVY ELEMENTS 2011 Student Practice in JINR Fields of Research NEUTRON EMISSION FROM SPONTANEOUS FISSION OF HEAVY ELEMENTS Students: RIHA Thomas TARGA Alexandre Supervisor: Alexander I. SVIRIKHIN Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, JINR Dubna, 2011
Main goal of project Preparation of the detection system of VASSILISSA separator for experiments aimed to investigation of neutron properties of spontaneous fissioning heavy nuclei
Vassilissa Separator SHELS Separator Spontaneous Fission detection Fusion
Description of detectors
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Calibration fission fragments fission fragments
Detector Efficiency tav= 41 [μs]
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Conclusion - Neutron detection efficiency ε = 45 % - Average living time of neutron before capturing in 3He-detector tav = 41 μs
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Acknowledgement We would like to express our gratitude to our supervisor Mr. Alexander I. SVIRIKHIN for his attention and for his helpful discussions and to the Vassilissa team as well.
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