https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2017-12436-9
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
The total kinetic energy release in the fast neutron-induced fission of 232Th
1
Dept. of Chemistry, Oregon State University, 97331, Corvallis, OR, USA
2
Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 87545, Los Alamos, NM, USA
* e-mail: lovelanw@onid.orst.edu
Received:
16
August
2017
Accepted:
20
November
2017
Published online:
15
December
2017
The post-emission total kinetic energy release (TKE) in the neutron-induced fission of 232Th was measured (using white spectrum neutrons from LANSCE) for neutron energies from 
to 91MeV. In this energy range the average post-neutron total kinetic energy release decreases from 
at 
MeV to 
MeV at 
MeV. Analysis of the fission mass distributions indicates that the decrease in TKE with increasing neutron energy is a combination of increasing yields of symmetric fission (which has a lower associated TKE) and a decrease in the TKE release in asymmetric fission.
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