Impact of pear-shaped fission fragments on mass-asymmetric fission in actinides

Impact of pear-shaped fission fragments on mass-asymmetric fission in actinides

Impact of pear-shaped fission fragments on mass-asymmetric fission in actinides, Published online: 19 December 2018; doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0780-0

Quantum many-body calculations of superfluid fission dynamics reveal that heavy fragments from asymmetric fission of actinides are associated with considerable octupole (pear-shaped) deformation acquired on the way to fission.