Collective inertia and fission barriers within the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock theory

Abstract

Spontaneous fission barriers, quadrupole inertia, and zero-point quadrupole-energy corrections are calculated for 252,256,258Fm in the framework of the self-consistent Skyrme-Hartree-Fock+BCS theory. Two ways of computing dynamical inertia are employed: the Gaussian Overlap Approximation to the Generator Coordinate Method and cranking ansatz. The Skyrme results are compared with those of the Gogny-Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov model.

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, missing factor of 2 found, figures corrected, to be published in International Journal of Modern Physics E