Muon-Induced Fission as a Probe for Fission Dynamics

16 June 1980

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 44 (24) , 1576-1579
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.44.1576

Abstract

Fission of

{}^{242}{Pu}

induced by radiationless muonic transitions is studied. By solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the muonic wave function in an axially symmetric spatial grid, one finds an observable dependence of the muonic final state-both in the localization of the muon and its excitation probability—on fission dynamics. More refined studies should allow one to extract information about the friction coefficient in fission.

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