Representación tridimensional del proceso de fotofisión en núcleos pesados, inducida por fotones reales con energías entre 0,1 y 0,6 GeV
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The fission of heavy nuclei induced by real photons (photofission) in the energy range between 0.1 GeV and the one-pion-photoproduction threshold (0.6 GeV) is represented using a 3D graphics engine created by the author. Nuclear models: liquid drop and Fermi gas are used to represent the heavy nuclei. The photofission process is divided into two stages: the intranuclear cascade and the evaporative cascade. In the first stage, the incident photon beam initiates an intranuclear cascade in which some of the particles involved can escape from the nucleus. The nucleus is then left in an excited state (compound nucleus), triggering the evaporative cascade in which the compound nucleus is de-excited via particle evaporation and/or fission mechanisms. The photofission probability is computed by counting the fission rate. The aforementioned stages were depicted using three-dimensional illustrations through an application written in C/C++ and linked to OpenGL.