The scientists of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw (UW) published the article “Angular momentum generation in nuclear fission” on February 24 in the journal Nature. Its authors include Dr Agnieszka Korgul, Dr Krzysztof Miernik, Dr. Victor Gauadilla and PhD students Monika Piersa and Ewa Adamska.
When an excessively inflated balloon breaks, its pieces fly away in opposite directions, performing various aerial stunts. The process of nuclear fission is similar. In a splitting system, the initial angular momentum is practically zero, and the mechanism of its formation has been a mystery for over 40 years. The breakthrough was achieved by a series of measurements carried out at the Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie research center in Orsay, France.
The obtained data, published in the journal Nature, are the result of cooperation between physicists from 37 research centers (from 16 countries), including the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, forming the Nu-ball research group.
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