CONTENTS -- Organizations -- Organising and Scientific Advisory Committees -- Preface -- Fission in Nuclear Astrophysics -- Fission barriers: How do they affect the r-process? I. V: Panov, B. Pfeiffer, K.-L. Kratz, E. Kolbe, T Rauscher and F.-K. Thielemann -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Different fission treatment barriers -- 2.1. Calculation of fission rates -- 3. Results for U and Cf -- 4. Discussion on r-process application and conclusions -- References -- Large-scale Skyrme-Hartree-Fock calculations of fission barriers in a multi-dimensional space M Samyn and S. Goriely -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The constrained HFB model and the calculation of barrier heights -- 3. Three test cases: 240Pu, 246Cm, and 252Cf -- 4. Outlook and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Microscopic calculations of spontaneous fission half-lives and neutron-induced fission cross sections P. Demetriou, M Samyn and S. Goriely -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method of Calculations -- 3. Neutron-Induced Fission Cross Sections -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Neutron-induced nucleosynthesis in the r-process B. Pfeifer and K.-L. Kratz -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classical r-process model -- 3. Cosmochronometers -- 4. Influence of fission on the r-process -- 5. Contributions related to the r-process -- References -- Fission Fragment Characteristics -- Microscopic and dynamical study of fragment mass distributions in 238U fission H. Goutte, P. Casoli and J. F. Berger -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Formalism -- 3. Static results -- 3.1. Potential energy surface and pairing energy -- 3.2. Total Kinetic Energy distribution -- 4. Dynamical results -- 4.1. Dynamical effects -- 4.2. Influence of the initial state on the mass distribution -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Prediction of fission mass yield distributions based on cross section evaluations F.-J. Hambsch, S. Oberstedt, G. Vladuca andA. Tudora -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The statistical model -- 3. Results and discussions -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Mass yields and kinetic energies from symmetric fission of 236U* and 240Pu* I. Tsekhanovich, G. Simpson, R Orlandi, A. Scherillo, D. Rochman and V: Sokolov -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental -- 3. Results and Discussion -- 3.1. Kinetic energies of fission fragments -- 3.2. Mass yields -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Study of the mass and charge distribution of fragments from fission induced by intermediate energy neutrons on 238U P. Casoli, T. Ethvignot, T. Granier, R. O. Nelson, N. Fotiades, M Devlin, D. Drake, K Younes, P.E. Garrel and J. A. Becker -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experiment -- 3. Analysis and Results -- 3.1. Identification of the fission fragments -- 3.2. Ezcitation functions and isotopic distributions -- 3.3. Charge yields -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Observation of the structures in the mass-TKE distributions of fission fragments in spontaneous fission V.A. Kalinin, V.N. Dushin, V.A. Jakolev, B.F. Petrov, A S . Vorobyev, A.B. Laptev, O.A. Shcherbakov and F.-J. Hambsch -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experiment and Data Processing -- 3. Results and discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Fission yield measurements with the ISOL method U. Koster for the ISOLDE Collaboration and the AlcaPARRNe Collaboration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental method -- 3. From "yields" to "yields" -- 4. Suitable elements -- 4.1. Noble gases -- 4.2. Alkalis -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Fragment excitation and moments of kinetic energy distributions in nuclear fission H.R. Faust -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fermi-Gas Distributions for the Level Densities of the Fragments.

3. Monte-Carlo Procedure for finding TXE, TKE and Single Fragment Kinetic Energies -- 4. Experimental Single Fragment Kinetic Energy Distributions -- 5. Entry States and Neutron Evaporation from the Fragments -- 6. Neutron Multiplicities from the Statistical Decay of Fragments -- 7. Extension of the Formalism to Ternary Fission -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Evidence for collinear cluster tripartition W.H. Trzaska, Yu V. Pyatkov, D. V. Kamanin, S.R. Yamaletdinov, E.A. Sokol, A.A. Alexandrov, I.A. Alexandrova, E.A. Kuznetsova, S. V. Mitrofanov, Yu E. Penionzhkevich, V. G. Tishchenko, A.N. Tjukavkin, B. V. Florko, S. V. Khlebnikov and Yu. V. Ryabov -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Collinear cluster tripartition -- 2. Experiment -- 2.1. Data analysis -- 2.2. Results -- 3. Discussion -- 3.1. Clusteraziation of 252Cf nucleus -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Talks of General Interest -- Neutrons from fission F. Gonnenwein -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Global Properties of Neutron Emission -- 3. Correlations between Neutrons and Fragments -- 4. Correlations between Neutrons -- 5. Neutrons from Heavy Ion induced Fission -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Ternary Fission -- Recent experiments on particle-accompanied fission M. Mutterer -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recent Experimental Studies -- 3. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- The ternary alpha energy distribution revisited C. Wagemans, P. Janssens, J. Heyse, O. Serot, P. Geltenbort and T. Soldner -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental conditions -- 3. Measurements and results -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1. The spontaneousfission of 252Cf -- 4.2. The thermal neutron inducedfission of 235U -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- New results on the ternary fission of Cm and Cf isotopes O. Serot, C. Wagemans, J. Heyse, J. Wagemans and P. Geltenbort -- 1. Introduction.

2. Investigation of the 246Cm compound nucleus -- 2.1. 245Cm(nth,f) -- 2.2. 246Cm(sf) -- 3. Investigation of Cf-isotopes -- 3.1. Measurement with the neutron beam closed -- Binary fission measurement -- Ternary fission measurement -- 3.2. Measurement with the neutron beam opened -- Binary fission measurement -- Ternary fission measurement -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1. Influence of the spectroscopic factor on the alpha emission probability -- 4.2. Influence of the ezcitation energy on alpha and triton emission probabilities -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Fission in the Superheavy Region -- Multimodal fission in heavy ions induced reactions I. V. Pokrovsky (for collaboration) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental technique and results -- 3. Experimental data treatment, analysis and discussion -- 3.1. Description of 226Th mass and energy distributions -- 3.2. Study of y-ray emission fromflssion of 226Th -- 3.3. Study of neutron emission from fission of 226Th -- 3.4. Fission modes and quasi-fusion in decay of Ra nuclei -- 3.5. Fission modes and quasi-fission in decay of 270Sg and 274Hs nuclei -- References -- The role of the quasifission process in reactions for the synthesis of superheavy elements G. Giardina, G. Fazio, A. Lamberto, R. Palamara, A.K. Nasirov, A.I. Muminov, K. V. Pavliy, A. V. Khugaev, Z. Kanokov, F. Hanappe, T. Materna and L. Stuttgte -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method of calculation -- 3. Formation of heavy and superheavy elements -- 3.1. The reaction leading to 296116 -- 3.2. The reaction leading to 291115 -- 3.3. The reactions leading to 220Th* and 256Rf* -- References.

Tracking dissipation in capture reactions in the superheavy region T. Materna, V. Bouchat, F. Hanappe, O. Dorvaux, C. Schmitt, L. Stuttgte, Y. Aritomo, A. Bogatchev, I. Itkis, M. Itkis, M. Jandel, G. Knyajeva, J. Kliman, E. Kozulin, N. Kondratiev, L. Krupa, E. Prokhorova, I. Pokrovski, V. Voskresenski, N. Amar, S. Grevy, J. Peter and G. Giardina -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental set-up -- 3. Pre-scission neutron multiplicity distributions (PSNMD) -- 4. Conclusion -- Appendix A. TOMATE: a new analysis method -- Appendix A.l. The problem to solve -- Appendix A.2. The existing method -- Appendix A.3. THOMATE -- Appendix A.4. Comparison of the methods -- References -- New Facilities -- Planned photofission experiments at the new Elbe accelerator in Rossendorf H. Sharma, K.M. Kosev, S. Fan, E. Grosse, A. Hartmann, A.R. Junghans, K.D. Schilling, M. Sobiella and A. Wagner -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental Setup -- 3. Monte Carlo Simulations -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- MYRRHA, a multipurpose accelerator driven system for R&D - Present status P. D'hondt, H. Ait Abderrahim, P. Kupschus, P. Benoit, E. Malambu, V. Sobolev, T. Aoust, K. Van Tichelen, B. Arien, F. Vermeersch, D. De Bruyn, D. Maes, W. Haeck, Y. Jongen and D. Vandeplassche -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Principle features of the design of the MYRRHA facility -- 3. Task profile -- 4. Design features and parameters and their justification -- 4.1 The main design parameters of MYRRHA and MYRRHA spallation target -- 4.2 The Required Accelerator -- 4.3 Sub-critical Core Configuration -- 4.4 Remote handling system -- 5. The complementary R&D programme -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Various Aspects of Nuclear Fission.

Fission of a 1 A GeV 238U-ions on a hydrogen-target M Bernas, P. Napolitani, F. Rejmund, C. Stephan, J. Taieb, L. Tassan-Got, P. Armbruster, T. Enqvist, M.-V. Ricciardi, K.-H. Schmidt, J. Benlliure, E. Casajeros, J. Pereira, A. Boudard, R. Legrain, S. Leray, C. Volant and S. Czajkowski.