Mechanisms of binary and ternary low-energy fission of nuclei with allowance for nonsphericity effects

Within the quantum-mechanical theory of fission, wave functions for fragments of binary nuclear fission and amplitudes of partial fission widths are constructed with allowance for a strong nonsphericity of fragment-interaction potentials. It is shown that, in the strong-coupling approximation, the symmetry axes of fission fragments are oriented along the symmetry axis of a fissile nucleus. The structure of the fragment-interaction potentials is analyzed, and the mechanism that is responsible for the alignment of the spins and relative orbital angular momenta of fission fragments and which explains the emergence of high fragment-spin values in experiments is substantiated. The mechanisms in question are generalized to the case of ternary nuclear fission. The fragment-interaction potentials and fragment wave functions are investigated, along with the partial fission widths with respect to the ternary fission of nuclei.