The spectrum of nuclear energy levels during the fission process

Abstract

Despite great success in explaining the fission process qualitatively, the liquid-drop model has failed to explain a number of important aspects of nuclear fission. Thus there has appeared a tendency to interpret experimental data by considering shell [1] and single-particle [2] effects. However, the authors of these and other works have confined themselves to a qualitative examination of the problem. In the fission process, the nucleus passes through various states of deformation. In the adiabatic approximation, each of these corresponds to a definite single-particle energy-level spectrum. In the present article we find the single-particle nucleon states during the fission process using specific assumptions about the mechanism of this process.