Nuclear fission modes and fragment mass asymmetries in a five-dimensional deformation space

Nature

Volumn 409, Issue 6822, 2001, Pages 785-790

  MOller P ^a   Madland, D G ^a   Sierk, A J ^a   Iwamoto, A ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PLUTONIUM 240; RADIUM; RADIUM 228; URANIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; KINETICS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THEORY;

EID: 0035865350     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35057204     Document Type: Article

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