Abstract

Within the two-center shell model parameterization we defined the optimal shape that fissioning nuclei attain just before the scission and calculated the total deformation energy (liquid-drop part plus the shell correction) as a function of the mass asymmetry and elongation at the scission point. The three minima corresponding to one mass-symmetric and two mass-asymmetric peaks in the mass distribution of fission fragments are found in the deformation energy at the scission point. The calculated deformation energy is used in a quasistatic approximation for the estimation of the total kinetic and excitation energies of fission fragments and the total number of emitted prompt neutrons. The calculated results reproduce rather well the experimental data on the position of the peaks in the mass distribution of fission fragments, and the total kinetic and excitation energies of fission fragments. The calculated value of neutron multiplicity is somewhat larger than experimental results.

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