Systematics of fission barriers in superheavy elements
Systematics of fission barriers in superheavy elements
We investigate the systematics of fission barriers in superheavy elements in the range $Z=108--120$ and $N=166--182$. Results from two self-consistent models for nuclear structure, the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model as well as the nonrelativistic Skyrme-Hartree-Fock approach are compared and discussed. We restrict ourselves to axially symmetric shapes, which provides an …