Fission of super-heavy elements: ${}^{132}$Sn-plus-the-rest, or ${}^{208}$Pb-plus-the-rest ?

Abstract

In this work we try to settle down the controversial predictions on the effect of doubly magic nuclei ${}^{132}$Sn and ${}^{208}$Pb on the mass distributions of fission fragments of super-heavy nuclei. For this we have calculated the mass distribution of super-heavy nuclei from ${}^{286}$Cn to ${}^{306}$122 within the dynamical 4-dimensional Langevin approach. We have found that in "light" super-heavies the influence of ${}^{208}$Pb on the mass distributions is present but negligible small. In "heavy" super-heavies, Z=120-122, the (quasi)symmetric peaks and strongly asymmetric peaks at fragment mass $A_F$ close to $A_F$=208 are of comparable magnitude.

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures