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Trajectory calculations have been carried out to obtain information about scission configuration in quaternary fission on the basis of observed angular-correlation and energy correlations between two alpha particles in the spontaneous quaternary fission of252Cf. A number of plausible hypotheses for the scission configuration were tested against the experimental observations on the two alpha particles. The role of mutual repulsion between two alpha particles at scission in deciding the final energy angular correlations has been examined. It was found that only one hypothesis regarding scission configuration is consistent with the experimental data.
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Kataria, S.K. Scission configuration in quaternary fission. Pramana - J. Phys. 7, 126–137 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02875321
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