Dynamical fission following peripheral heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

A closed-form theoretical approach describing in a single picture both the evaporation component and the fast nonequilibrium component of the sequential fission of projectile-like fragments in a peripheral heavy-ion collision is derived and then applied to the dynamical fission observed in the [Formula: see text]+[Formula: see text] semiperipheral collision at 35A[Formula: see text]MeV. Information on the reaction mechanism is obtained such as the opposite polarization effects and the estimate of the “formation-to-fast fission lifetimes” of the fissioning fragment.