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Asked in JEE Main Re-Scheduled 2011 · Splitting and decay
The compound nucleus is effectively at rest, since the neutron arrives with negligible momentum.
The two fragments therefore fly apart with equal and opposite momenta.
λ=/hp depends on momentum alone, not on mass.
Both fragments share the same wavelength λ.
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