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The Multi-Humped Fission Barrier

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Abstract

Nuclear fission is a process that very soon after its discovery was understood as tunneling through a barrier. This barrier refers to a structure in the potential-energy landscape, whose description has considerably changed with time due to a fruitful interaction between experimental results and theoretical modeling. Since barrier parameters in general are not directly accessible by experiments, we give an overview of important observations related to fission, theoretical descriptions of the barrier, and how information on the barrier may be deduced experimentally. Hence, in this chapter, we try to summarize this development from more than 80 years ago to present day’s knowledge and give an outlook on promising new approaches.

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