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Rate of excited-nucleus fission within a multidimensional stochastic approach

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A stochastic approach to describing the dynamics of the nuclear-fission process is applied to study the effect of the number of dimensions on the fission rate within the dynamical model used. The time dependence of the fission rate is calculated on the basis of a multidimensional Langevin equation without taking into account particle evaporation. The one-, two-, and three-dimensional cases are considered for the example of the “c, h, α” parametrization of nuclear-surface shapes. The calculations are performed for a large number of compound nuclei whose parameter Z 2/A falls within the range 20 ≤ Z 2/A ≤ 40. The stationary level of the fission rate is found to increase considerably upon going over from the one- to the three-dimensional case. This increase is especially pronounced for light fissile nuclei in the vicinity of the Businaro-Gallone point. Also, the stationary fission-rate level obtained from our dynamical simulation is compared with its counterpart calculated by the Kramers formula generalized to the multidimensional case.

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    Yu. A. Anischenko, A. E. Gegechkori, P. N. Nadtochy & G. D. Adeev

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Original Russian Text © Yu.A. Anischenko, A.E. Gegechkori, P.N. Nadtochy, G.D. Adeev, 2009, published in Yadernaya Fizika, 2009, Vol. 72, No. 12, pp. 2056–2068.

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Anischenko, Y.A., Gegechkori, A.E., Nadtochy, P.N. et al. Rate of excited-nucleus fission within a multidimensional stochastic approach. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 72, 1992–2004 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778809120035

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