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Nuclear fission of several neutron-deficient actinides and pre-actinides from excitation energies around 11 MeV was studied at GSI Darmstadt by use of relativistic secondary beams. The characteristics of multimodal fission of nuclei around 226 Th are systematically investigated and interpreted as the superposition of three fission channels. Properties of these fission channels have been determined for 15 systems. A global view on the properties of fission channels including previous results is presented. The positions of the asymmetric fission channels are found to be constant in element number over the whole range of systems investigated.2 data of 15 of the systems, which show features of multi-modal fission. The systematic survey of fissioning systems in the transition from single-humped to double-humped element distributions around 226 Th extends the systematic view on how the intensities and other relevant parameters of the fission channels vary as a function of the nuclear composition of the fissioning nucleus. EXPERIMENTAt GSI Darmstadt, a new technique to investigate low-energy fission has been developed [4,5]. Relativistic secondary projectiles are produced via fragmentation of a 1 A GeV primary beam of 238 U and identified in nuclear mass and charge number by the fragment separator FRS [6]. In a dedicated experimental set-up, the giant resonances, mostly the giant dipole resonance, are excited by electromagnetic interactions in a secondary lead target, and fission from excitation energies around 11 MeV is induced. The fission fragments are identified in nuclear charge, and their velocity vectors are determined. From these data, the element yields and the total kinetic energies are deduced. Details of the experimental technique are given elsewhere [1].

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