Microscopic description of complex nuclear decay: multimodal fission
Nuclear Theory
2009-08-18 v1
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0906.4248,
title = {Microscopic description of complex nuclear decay: multimodal fission},
author = {A. Staszczak and A. Baran and J. Dobaczewski and W. Nazarewicz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.4248},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 6 figures; accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C