The effect of the Landau--Zener transitions on nuclear fission dynamics

Abstract

In the paper, it is studied the influence of Landau-Zener transitions between nuclear many-body states on the dissipative properties of nuclear large--amplitude collective motion. Within the cranking-like approach, we describe the time evolution of a nuclear many-body system as the self-consistent motion in a space of intrinsic excitations and in a space of a single collective (deformation) parameter. By that we measure how the spectral statistics of the nuclear energy levels affects the fission rate at quite large initial temperatures of heavy nuclei.