Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2008-02-19
Phys.Rev.C77:044308,2008
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
6 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.77.044308
We discuss the sensitivity of fission barrier for heavy neutron-rich nuclei to fission paths in the two dimensional neutron-proton quadrupole plane. To this end, we use the constrained Skyrme-Hartree-Fock + BCS method, and examine the difference of fission barriers obtained with three constraining operators, that is, the neutron, proton, and mass quadrupole operators. We investigate $^{220}$U, $^{236}$U, and $^{266}$U, %from proton-rich to neutron-rich uranium isotopes, that is relevant to r-process nucleosynthesis. We find that the fission barrier heights are almost the same among the three constraining operators even for neutron-rich nuclei, indicating that the usual way to calculate fission barriers with the mass quadrupole operator is well justified. We also discuss the difference between proton and neutron deformation parameters along the fission paths.
Hagino Kouichi
Minato Futoshi
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