Prompt fission neutrons carry valuable information on how excitation energy is shared between fragments in nuclear fission. Precise measurements on the neutron multiplicity are needed both as a function of fragment mass and excitation energy, as data are rather scarce. In this work we present two complementary experimental setups to measure prompt fission-neutrons, at different excitation...
Despite long efforts on experimental and theoretical studies of nuclear reactions, it is still not possible to predict the cross sections of most reactions from the first principles, and therefore accurate measurements are still necessary in order to improve evaluated nuclear data files and to benchmark nuclear model codes. In particular, studies of neutron-induced reactions in medium-energy...
The interplay between single-particle and collective degrees of freedom in $^{251}$Fm was investigated using combined internal conversion electron (ICE) and $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy. Excited states in $^{251}$Fm were populated via the $\alpha$-decay of $^{255}$No produced in the fusion-evaporation reactions: $^{208}$Pb($^{48}$Ca, 1n)$^{255}$No and $^{209}$Bi($^{48}$Ca, 2n)$^{255}$Lr. The...
