Fission barriers calculated from the rotating liquid drop model with finite-range corrections based on scaling of the nonrotating finite-range model of Krappe et al. are compared with results explicitly calculated for rotating systems with the finite-range effect included. The scaling method is shown to give excellent agreement with the calculated barriers, confirming earlier conclusions on effective fission barrier heights based on the scaling procedure.

• Received 4 February 1986

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.34.2215