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Microscopic description of complex nuclear decay: multimodal fission
Andrzej StaszczakAndrzej StaszczakAndrzej StaszczakWitold NazarewiczWitold NazarewiczWitold NazarewiczAndrzej BaranAndrzej BaranAndrzej BaranJacek DobaczewskiJacek Dobaczewskisubject
PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsFission productsNuclear TheoryFissionNuclear Theorychemistry.chemical_elementFOS: Physical sciencesHassiumNuclear physicsNuclear Theory (nucl-th)chemistryNuclear fissionSeaborgiumRutherfordiumPhysics::Atomic and Molecular ClustersNuclear ExperimentRadioactive decaySpontaneous fissiondescription
Our understanding of nuclear fission, a fundamental nuclear decay, is still incomplete due to the complexity of the process. In this paper, we describe a study of spontaneous fission using the symmetry-unrestricted nuclear density functional theory. Our results show that the observed bimodal fission can be explained in terms of pathways in multidimensional collective space corresponding to different geometries of fission products. We also predict a new phenomenon of trimodal spontaneous fission for some rutherfordium, seaborgium, and hassium isotopes.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-06-23 |