https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00295-6
Regular Article – Experimental Physics
Total kinetic energy and mass yields from the fast neutron-induced fission of 
1
Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
2
P-27, Physics Division, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Received:
18
September
2020
Accepted:
18
October
2020
Published online:
26
November
2020
The total kinetic energy (TKE) release in fission is an important observable, constituting over 80% of the energy released in fission (
). While the TKE release in the (n,f) reaction was previously measured up to 50 MeV incident neutron energy (
), there were features in TKE release at the highest values of that were puzzling. There was a marked flattening of TKE release from 
to 50 MeV, in disagreement with the clearly decreasing TKE observed from 
to 30 MeV. To verify and clarify this trend, TKE measurements at higher values of 
were made. We present absolute measurements of TKE release in (n,f) from 
to 100 MeV. We used silicon PIN detectors to measure the fragment energies and deduce mass-yield curves using the 2E-method. We also discuss fission asymmetry and the relationships between approximate fission fragment mass and distortion.
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