https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111710002
True ternary fission and quasifission of superheavy nuclear systems
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Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, JINR, Dubna, 141980 Russia
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Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 60438 Germany
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e-mail: karpov@jinr.ru
We found that a true ternary fission with formation of a heavy third fragment (a new kind of radioactivity) is quite possible for superheavy nuclei due to the strong shell effects leading to a three-body clusterization with the two doubly magic tin-like cores. The three-body quasifission process could be even more pronounced for giant nuclear systems formed in collisions of heavy actinide nuclei. In this case a three-body clusterization might be proved experimentally by detection of two coincident lead-like fragments in low-energy U+U collisions.
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