Effect of Octupole Correlations on Fission of Light Nuclei

Abstract

Fission of 180 Hg produces mass asymmetric fragments which are expected to be influenced by deformed shell-effects at N = 56 in the heavy fragment and Z = 34 in the light fragment [G. Scamps and C. Simenel, arXiv:1904.01275 (2019)]. To investigate both shell-effects and to determine which one has the main influence on the asymmetry in the region of the 180 Hg, we produce a systematic of Constraint-Hartree-Fock calculations in nuclei with similar N/Z ratio than the 178 Pt. It is found that N = 56 determines the asymmetry of systems in this region of the nuclear chart.