https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202125600018
Possible ternary fission of super-heavy nuclei
1 Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Kansai University, 564-8680 Suita, Osaka, Japan
2 National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, 76900 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
3 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, FLNP, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
4 Institute for Nuclear Research, 03680 Kiev, Ukraine
* e-mail: wadataka@kansai-u.ac.jp
Published online: 15 December 2021
In super-heavy nuclei, we may expect to discover new phenomena because of the strong Coulomb force. One example is the true ternary fission. We study the sequential two binary fission of 300120 and 252Cf that produces three fragments. We use the Metropolis method to estimate the probability of the second fission. The probability of the second fission is 10−4-10−3 for superheavy nuclei while it is 10−7−10−6 for heavy actinide nuclei. The most probable mass division is almost symmetric in the case of 300120. We also demonstrate the applicability of the Metropolis method to a non-equilibrium process by comparing it with the Langevin equation.
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