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The mass-energy distributions and cross sections of proton-induced fission of 232Th have been measured at the proton energies of 7, 10, 13, 20, 40, and 55 MeV. Experiments were carried out at the proton beam of the K-130 cyclotron of the JYFL Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä and U-150m cyclotron of the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The yields of fission fragments in the mass range A = 60–170 a.m.u. have been measured up to the level of 10−4%. The three humped shape of the mass distribution up has been observed at higher proton energies. The contribution of the symmetric component grows up with increasing proton incident energy; although even at 55 MeV of proton energy the shoulders in the mass energy distribution clearly indicate the asymmetric fission peaks. Evolution of shell structure was observed in the fission fragment mass distributions even at high excitation energy.
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Published in Russian in Yadernaya Fizika i Inzhiniring, 2015, Vol. 6, No. 5–6, pp. 205–214.
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Gikal, K.B., Kozulin, E.M., Bogachev, A.A. et al. Proton induced fission of 232Th at intermediate energies. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 79, 1367–1374 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778816090040
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