Etude de la production de fragments dans la fission induite par neutrons sur l'uranium 238.

Mass and charge distributions of fission fragments from the fission induced on uranium 238 by neutrons from 1 to 150 MeV were studied by experimental data and theoretical calculations. Measurements in prompt gamma and x-ray spectroscopy, completed at the LANSCE laboratory of Los Alamos allowed us to determine the secondary fission fragment production yields. Photovoltaic cells were used as a fission trigger. About one hundred fragments were identified and about thirty excitation functions were extracted. Mass and charge distributions at different incident energies were obtained. The comparison with evaluated data (Wahl systematics) shows that the calculations are consistent with the measurements below 20 MeV but not predictive enough above. A potential energy surface was drawn from microscopic constrained self-consistent HFB calculations. We obtained a fragment mass distribution by solving the dynamic Schrodinger equation on this surface.