Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee / Department of Physics
Test of isospin conservation in thermal neutron-induced fission of 245Cm
In this paper, we tested the concept of isospin conservation to reproduce the fission fragment mass distribution emerging from thermal neutron-induced CN fission reaction, 245CM(nth, f). We calculated the relative yields of neutron-rich fragments using the concept of isospin conservation and basic isospin algebra. The calculated results reproduce the experimentally known partition-wise mass distributions quite well. This highlights the usefulness of isospin as an approximately good quantum number in neutron-rich nuclei. This also allowed us to predict the fragment distribution of the most symmetric Cd–Cd partition and the heavier mass fragment distributions, both not measured so far.