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PHYSICAL REVIEW C
Volume 87, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.87.054326
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- National Nuclear Security Administration of the US Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory [DE-AC52-06NA25396, DE-FG02-06ER41407]
- MEXT's HPCI Strategic Program
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The double-humped structure of many actinide fission barriers is well established both experimentally and theoretically. There is also evidence, both experimental and theoretical, that some actinide nuclei have barriers with a third minimum, outside the second, fission-isomeric minimum. We perform a large-scale, systematic calculation of actinide fission barriers to identify which actinide nuclei exhibit third minima. We find that only a relatively few nuclei accessible to experiment exhibit third minima in their barriers: approximately nuclei with proton number Z in the range 88 <= Z <= 94 and nucleon number A in the range 230 <= A <= 236. We find that the third minimum is less than 1 MeV deep for light Th and U isotopes. This is consistent with some previous experimental and theoretical results, but it differs from some others. We discuss possible origins of these incompatible results and what are the most realistic predictions of where third minima are observable.
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