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MECHANISMS OF THE T-ODD ASYMMETRIES FORMATION IN REACTIONS OF TERNARY FISSION OF NUCLEI BY COLD POLARIZED NEUTRONS WITH THE EMISSION OF ALPHA PARTICLES

14 Oct 2020, 14:40
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Oral report Section 2. Experimental and theoretical studies of nuclear reactions. Section 2. Experimental and theoretical studies of nuclear reactions

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Dmitrii Lyubashevsky (Voronezh State University)

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It was proved [1] that P-even T-odd asymmetry in differential cross sections of nuclear ternary fission reactions by cold polarized neutrons with the flight of α-particles can be represented in common case through the sum of triple σ3(Ω)=A3(θ)(σn[pLF,pα]) and quinary σ5(Ω)=A5(θ)(σn[pLF,pα])(pLF,pα) scalar correlators, depending from spin σn of polarized neutron, oriented along the axis Y, momentum of light fission fragment pLF, oriented along the axis Z, and momentum of α–particle pα emitted in solid angle Ω(θ,φ)). Coefficients A3 and A5 are connected with sums of quantities (pLF,pα)n=cosn(θ) with even values n. For the case of α-particle emission in plane (Z,X) when φ=0, this correlators are presented as σ3(θ)sinθ and σ5(θ)sinθcosθ  and satisfy the symmetry condition: σ3(θ)=σ3(πθ), σ5(θ)=σ5(πθ). Then investigated correlators can be expressed through the coefficient of researched above asymmetry [2]: D(θ)=[σ3(θ)+σ5(θ)]/σ0(θ), where σ0(θ) is the differential cross section of analogous reaction with cold polarized neutrons, as σ3,5(θ)=1/2[D(θ)σ0(θ)±D(πθ)σ0(πθ)] (1). Using experimental values Dexp(θ) and σ0exp(θ) for target nuclei 233U, 235U, 239Pu and 241Pu [2], the values of triple σ3exp(θ) and quinary σ5exp(θ) correlations were calculated. Taking into account the mechanism of the T-odd asymmetries formation, due to the influence of quantum rotation of the compound fissile system around an axis perpendicular to its symmetry axis on the angular distribution of fission fragments and α–particles, these correlators can be represented as σ3th(θ)=Δ3(dσodd0(θ)/dθ), σ5th(θ)=Δ5(dσev0(θ)/dθ)(2), where σev0 and σodd0 are the components [1] of the differential cross section σ0(θ), connected accordingly with even and odd orbital moments of α-particles, and Δ3, Δ5 are the effective rotation angles of pα relative to pLF. A comparison of the correlations from formulae (1), (2) allows to find the values of the angles Δ3, Δ5 by the χ2-method, and using them to calculate the correlators σ3th and σ5th. The calculated angles Δ3 are comparable with the angles obtained in the classical approach [2] and have a positive sign for all nuclei. At the same time, it is possible to achieve acceptable agreement between the correlators for 235U, 239Pu and 241Pu, however, these correlators are very different from each other for 233U. A reasonable agreement of σ5th(θ) and σ5(θ) is observed for all nuclei, but the sign of Δ5 is positive and coincides with Δ that is calculated in the framework of the classical approach [2], but when switching from 235U, 239Pu and 241Pu to 233U, the sign changes.The differences obtained above for the classical and quantum approaches of the studied T-odd asymmetries can be used in the analysis of the reliability of these approaches.

  1. S.G. Kadmensky, V.E. Bunakov, D.E. Lubashevsky // Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci.: Phys., 2019, vol. 83, p. 1236.

  2. A. Gagarsky et al., Phys. Rev. C. 2016. V. 93. P 054619.

  3. S.G. Kadmensky, L.V. Titova, V.E. Bunakov//Phys. Atom. Nucl. 82, 239 (2019).

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Dmitrii Lyubashevsky (Voronezh State University)

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