dc.contributor.author Eccles, CS en dc.contributor.author Roy, S en dc.contributor.author Gray, Thomas en dc.contributor.author Zaccone, Alessio en dc.date.accessioned 2018-02-06T13:43:55Z dc.date.available 2018-02-06T13:43:55Z dc.identifier.uri https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271723 dc.description.abstract Accounting for viscous damping within Fokker-Planck equations led to various improvements in the understanding and analysis of nuclear fission of heavy nuclei. Analytical expressions for the fission time are typically provided by Kramers' theory, which improves on the Bohr-Wheeler estimate by including the time-scale related to many-particle dissipative processes along the deformation coordinate. However, Kramers' formula breaks down for sufficiently high excitation energies where Kramers' assumption of a large barrier no longer holds. In the regime $T>1$ MeV, Kramers' theory should be replaced by a new theory based on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck first-passage time method that is proposed here. The theory is applied to fission time data from fusion-fission experiments on $^{16}$O+$^{208}$Pb $\rightarrow$ $^{224}$Th. The proposed model provides an internally consistent one-parameter fitting of fission data with a constant nuclear friction as the fitting parameter, whereas Kramers' fitting requires a value of friction which falls out of the allowed range. The theory provides also an analytical formula that in future work can be easily implemented in numerical codes such as CASCADE or JOANNE4. dc.publisher American Physical Society dc.title Temperature dependence of nuclear fission time in heavy-ion fusion-fission reactions en dc.type Article prism.number 054611 en prism.publicationName Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics en prism.volume 96 en dc.identifier.doi 10.17863/CAM.18716 dcterms.dateAccepted 2017-11-15 en rioxxterms.versionofrecord 10.1103/PhysRevC.96.054611 en rioxxterms.version AM * rioxxterms.licenseref.uri http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved en rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate 2017-11-15 en rioxxterms.type Journal Article/Review en
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