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Nuclear molecules in ternary fission

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Acta Physica Hungarica Series A, Heavy Ion Physics

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Experimental results on particle accompanied cold fission of 252Cf suggest the existence of a short-lived quasi-molecular state. Within our three-center phenomenological model, described in this paper, we found a possible explanation based on a new minimum in the deformation energy at a separation distance very close to the touching point. Half-lives of some quasimolecular states which could be formed in 10Be accompanied fission of 236U, 236Pu, 246Cm, 252Cf, 252,256Fm, 256,260No, and 262Rf are roughly estimated.

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  1. Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, RO-76900, Bucharest-Mâgurele, Romania

    D. N. Poenaru

  2. Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität, D-60054, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    D. N. Poenaru & W. Greiner

  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, 37235, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

    D. N. Poenaru, J. H. Hamilton & A. V. Ramayya

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Poenaru, D.N., Greiner, W., Hamilton, J.H. et al. Nuclear molecules in ternary fission. APH N.S., Heavy Ion Physics 14, 285–295 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1556/APH.14.2001.1-4.27

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