tdgros t1_j4qbwij wrote
Reply to comment by mfb- in If nuclear fission in U-235 causes the atom to be split into 2 smaller atoms (such as Kr-92 and Ba-141) then how is it that U-236 is produced as waste since the U-235 was just split into smaller peices? by Ian98766
Are the shape of the curves (clean, a few spikes, lots of spikes, super clean from ~0.002MeV onward) related to some physical processes we know? is it just due to the scale of the plot?
mfb- t1_j4qiu6w wrote
The mess in the middle is the resonance region. If you look at zoomed in plots then you see the cross section spiking for individual resonances. Here are examples, see e.g. figure 2, that's for uranium-238 but the idea is the same for U-235.
The leftmost spikes look nicer because it's a log plot so the same energy difference gets more space in the plot.
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