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A novel experimental method for investigation of the time evolution of nucl
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ased on the phenomenon of energy loss of charged particles in solids. The p
ossibility of the employment of the new technique to study the time charact
eristics of the heavy nucleus fission process in the near-threshold energy
range, formation and decay of short-lived spontaneously fissionable isomers
and excited superheavy nuclei was analysed. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V.
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