MAPPING FISSION BARRIER VALUE USING LIQUID DROP MODEL AND MONTE CARLO METHODS FOR HEAVY NUCLEI
Mankind's needs for energy will grow alongside technological advancement. One of our alternative sources of energy is nuclear energy. Conventional nuclear energy uses what is called a fissile material to achieve a sustainable fission reaction. One of the factors that determines a material is...
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| Format: | Theses |
| Language: | Indonesia |
| Online Access: | https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/54013 |
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| Institution: | Institut Teknologi Bandung |
| Language: | Indonesia |
| Summary: | Mankind's needs for energy will grow alongside technological advancement. One
of our alternative sources of energy is nuclear energy. Conventional nuclear
energy uses what is called a fissile material to achieve a sustainable fission
reaction. One of the factors that determines a material is fissile or not is its fission
barrier. Fission barrier can be determined via understanding the physics behind a
nucleus. The main goal of this thesis is to map the values of fission barrier for
heavy nuclei. Liquid Drop Model is the method used to simplify the calculation
and analysis. This thesis calculates the total binding energy of a nucleus on each
step of vibration when the nucleus is under disturbance. Randomized positions of
the nucleons will be generated using the Monte Carlo method to simulate the non
deterministic nature of the nucleus and is used to calculate the coulomb potential
energy section of the binding energy. Total energy of each step then will be
utilized to calculate the fission barrier value. This study finds that the fission
barrier obtained will have a higher value with the increasing number of nucleons. |
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