An Introduction to Nuclear Fission (Graduate Texts in Physics)

1. Introduction 1.1. Why study fission? 1.2. The discovery of fission 1.3. The role of women in the development of the field 1.4. Early model of fission: the Bohr and Wheeler paper 1.5. Structure of the book 2. Fission Systematics and General Characteristics 2.1. Spontaneous and induced fission 2.2. Chronology of the fission process 2.3. Fission energetics 2.4. Fission barriers 2.5. Fission isomers 2.6. Fragment mass and energy distributions 2.7. Neutron distributions 3. Fission Models 3.1. The liquid drop model 3.2. The Strutinsky shell correction method 3.3. Energy surfaces 3.4. Transition state theory 3.5. 4.1. Mass and charge distributions 4.2. Kinetic energy distribution 4.3. Angular momentum of fragments 4.4. Angular distribution of fragments 4.5. Decay of fragments: the Bateman equation 5. Fission Neutrons 5.1. Scission and post-scission neutrons 5.2. Prompt and delayed neutrons 5.3. Neutron yield 5.4. Neutron spectrum 6. Fission Gammas 6.1. Prompt and delayed gammas 6.2. Fission product yields from gamma-ray measurements 6.3. Fragment angular momentum deduced from gammas 6.4. Average gamma-ray energies and multiplicities 6.5. Shape of the gamma-ray spectrum 7. Advanced Topics 7.1. The Hartree-Fock approximation 7.2. The treatment of pairing in the BCS approximation 7.3. Constrained Hartree-Fock+BCS and energy surfaces 7.4. The Generator Coordinate Method 7.5. Fission dynamics: Semi-classical methods 7.6. Fission dynamics: Quantum-mechanical methods 7.7. The nucleus at and beyond scission 7.8. Future directions in fission theory and experiments