F R Barclay and W J Whitehouse 1953 Proc. Phys. Soc. A 66 447 doi:10.1088/0370-1298/66/5/304
F R Barclay and W J Whitehouse
Show affiliationsThe average number of neutrons ν emitted in the spontaneous fission of 242Cm has been measured by a method depending on the device of counting only those neutrons which are detected after the occurrence of a fission. In this way the effect of neutrons from sources other than spontaneous fission is eliminated. The value found for ν is 3.0 neutrons per fission. The estimated standard error is 10-15%.
Accelerators, beams and electromagnetism
Issue 5 (1 May 1953)
Received 24 November 1952
F R Barclay and W J Whitehouse 1953 Proc. Phys. Soc. A 66 447
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