Recent content by Noddi

That's a really cool idea to think of the potential energy as a function of deformation as a surface. I think I understand the process more clearly now so thank you very much for that.

Exactly, the total mass of the asymmetric fission products are higher than the total mass of the symmetric products. But that means the binding energy released in the fission is higher for the symmetric products, since difference in mass of the parent nuclei and its products is larger. For the...

Good points about the alpha decay and rare cluster decays. I had never thought of it that way before. I'm a bit muddled about the idea that uneven fission product sizes could release more energy than symmetric products. I.e surely the fission of a parent nuclei into two evenly sized nuclei...

Because if a nucleus undergoes fission into two nuclei of the same mass, the energy released would be higher than if the same parent nuclei undergoes fission to produce two nuclei of different masses. So wouldn't that mean it is more energetically favorable for a parent nuclei to undergo fission...

Sorry! Yes I meant to write asymmetric. As in why would spontaneous fission produce two nuclei of different masses instead of producing two nuclei of the same mass?

Is it possible for a nucleus to undergo antisymmetric spontaneous fission? And if so, what is the process responsible? Thanks