Limitations in Application of Spark Counter in Counting of Fission Fragments at Various Angles of Incidence and That of Their Energy Degradation in Air

Abstract

Reports had been made of a spark counter and this has now been used in the studies of detection and counting of fission fragments, incident on an SSNTD at various angles of incidence, from a 252Cf source. The effect of their straggling in air has also been observed with the use of this counter in the determination of the number of fission fragments. The implications of these studies may be useful in the measurements of total fission events occurring from a nuclear reaction of a heavy element which is of some interest to the reactor and applied nuclear physicists.