Within the framework of the two-center shell model, the influence of excitation energy and spin-orbit interaction on the potential energy surface and, accordingly, on the axially symmetric and mass-symmetric static fission paths selected on the basis of potential energy surfaces is considered.

A thermodynamically consistent description of induced fission pathways in the superheavy nucleus 296Lv is presented within the framework of nuclear energy-density functional theory. Using self-consistent finite-temperature Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations with the Skyrme-type energy-density functional SkM*, we derive and compare effective potentials corresponding to different thermodynamic processes - isothermal (T = const), isentropic (S = const), and isoenergetic (E = const) - as functions of quadrupole deformation and excitation energy.

Inviter: Xiang-Xiang Sun