Hidden variables in angular correlations of the particles emitted in fission

TL;DR

This paper compares angular correlation experiments in nuclear fission, highlighting differences in information content and testing empirical relations, using a model involving muonic conversion in uranium-238 fragments.

Contribution

It introduces a comparative analysis framework for fission angular correlations based on a muonic conversion model, revealing fundamental differences and empirical relations.

Findings

Alignment parameter is half the polarization parameter.

Fundamental differences in information content between (n, f) and (n, n) correlations.

Experimental verification of empirical relations between alignment and polarization.

Abstract

A comparative analysis of experiments on studying the (n, f), on one hand, and (n, n), on the other hand, angular correlations in fission is carried out, based on the model proposed by muonic conversion in fragments of prompt fission of 238U with negative muons. Their fundamental difference is shown in the sense of the information that can be inferred from them. Historically, the situation resembles the EPR paradox. An experimental check of the empirical relation between the alignment and polarization parameters, the former is twice as small as the latter one.