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For reasonable shapes {α} described by a set of dimensionless deformation parameters the liquid drop deformation energy BDef exhibits a barrier for each value of the fissility x, cf. Eq. (1.75), for instance the configuration of two tangent spheres for x = 0 and a single sphere for x = 1. The deformation energy at the saddle deformation {\( \hat \alpha \)} is called BBar(x, \( \hat \alpha \)) and corresponds, if multiplied by Eg, to the LDM fission barrier height. The symbol ξ is sometimes also used for BBar instance in [Wilets 64].
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Hasse, R.W., Myers, W.D. (1988). Saddle Point Properties. In: Geometrical Relationships of Macroscopic Nuclear Physics. Springer Series in Nuclear and Particle Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83017-4_8
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