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R. N. Panda¹, M. Bhuyan², S. K. Patra<sup>3

1</sup>Department of Physics, Institute of Technical Education and Research, Siksha O Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, India
²School of Physics, Sambalpur University, Jyotivihar, Sambalpur, India
³Institute of Physics, Sachivalaya Marg, Bhubaneswar, India

Abstract: The structural properties of the recently predicted thermally fissile neutron-rich Uranium and Thorium isotopes are studied using the relativistic mean field formalism. The investigation of the new phenomena of multifragmentation fission is analyzed. In addition to the fission properties, the total nuclear reaction cross section which is a measure of the probability of production of these nuclei is evaluated taking ^6,11Li and ^16,24O as projectiles. The possible use of nuclear fuel in an accelerator based reactor is discussed which may be the substitution of ^233,235U and ²³⁹Pu for nuclear fuel in near future.

Keywords: relativistic mean field formalism, matter density distribution, nuclear reaction cross section, multifragmentation fission.

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