Simulated Uncertainties In The Monte-Carlo Fitting Method

Fission is a nuclear reaction in which a single, heavy nucleus splits into two massive daughter particles. In 2020, an experiment was performed to measure the fission properties of nuclei near 196Pb through fusion-fission with 4He. Previous work developed methods to measure the element number of the fission fragments and the excitation energy of the fissioning nucleus. Both tasks were completed using a Monte-Carlo based fitting method. While effective, the in the method were unknown. To better understand these uncertainties, we performed a Monte-Carlo fit on a range of simulated data to understand the impacts experimental constraints have on the uncertainty in the fitting method. Initial results on the uncertainty will be presented.