The fission barrier of actinide nuclei at very high angular momentum
Authors:
M. Faber
Affiliation:
Institut für Kernphysik der TU Wien, Austria
Institut für Kernphysik der KFA Jülich, W. Germany
Abstract:
The Strutinsky approach with a cranked, axially symmetric Saxon-Woods potential, is used to study the double-humped fission barrier of 240Pu at very high spins. The stabilizing role of the shell effects in the second minimum is demonstrated.