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Measurements of fission fragment yields and neutron multiplicities have been carried out for the Mo-Ba fragment pairs in the spontaneous fission of 252Cf, using the γ-ray spectroscopy technique to analyze γ-γ-γ coincidence data. Prompt γ -ray multiplicities were also measured as a function of the number of neutrons emitted in the fission process leading to the Mo-Ba partition. We do not observe the enhancement in the yields of events with high neutron emission multiplicity (νn > 7) that has been associated to a second fission mode leading to the production of hyperdeformed Ba fragments, as reported in some earlier studies. The average γ-ray multiplicity is found to be rather weakly dependent on the number of neutrons emitted in the fission process.
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Received: 21 July 1999 / Revised version: 19 November 1999
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Biswas, D., Choudhury, R., Cinausero, M. et al. Study of the Mo-Ba partition in 252Cf spontaneous fission . EPJ A 7, 189–195 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00013598
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00013598