Eur. Phys. J. A (2005) 26: 327-332
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2005-10179-x

Original Article

Bimodality and charge splitting in fission of actinides

¹ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Russia
² Institut für Theoretische Physik der Justus-Liebig-Universität, D-35392, Giessen, Germany
³ Institute of Nuclear Physics, 702132, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

^* e-mail: adamian@thsun1.jinr.ru

Received: 16 August 2005
Accepted: 29 November 2005
Published online: 16 December 2005

Abstract

Within the scission point model the bimodality in fission of actinides is demonstrated to be related to different neighboring charge and mass splittings. This phenomenon is peculiar not only for the fission of heavy nuclei like ^256,258Fm and ^256,258,262No but also for fission of lighter actinides like ²³⁶U, ²⁴⁰Pu and ²⁵²Cf. The experiments are suggested to prove our interpretation of bimodality.