English

Nuclear shell effect and collinear tripartition of nuclei

Nuclear Theory 2015-10-28 v1

Abstract

A possibility of formation of the three reaction products having comparable masses at the spontaneous fission of 252^{252}Cf is theoretically explored. This work is aimed to study the mechanism leading to observation of the reaction products with masses M1=M_1=136---140 and M2=M_2=68---72 in coincidence by the FOBOS group in JINR. The same type of ternary fission decay has been observed in the reaction 235^{235}U(nth_{\rm th},fff). The potential energy surface for the ternary system forming a collinear nuclear chain is calculated for the wide range of mass and charge numbers of constituent nuclei. The results of the PES for the tripartition of 252^{252}Cf(sf,fff) shows, that we have favorable dynamical conditions for the formation of fragments with mass combinations of clusters 6870^{68-70}Ni with 130132^{130-132}Sn and with missing cluster 4852^{48-52}Ca.

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@article{arxiv.1411.4370,
  title  = {Nuclear shell effect and collinear tripartition of nuclei},
  author = {A. K. Nasirov and W. von Oertzen and R. B. Tashkhodjaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.4370},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

13 pages, 9 figures, Contribution of the International conference on "75 Years of Nuclear Fission: Present Status and future perspectives", May 8-10, 2014, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, INDIA. Accepted to the Journal of Physics Pramana of Indian Academy of Science