Ternary fission of nuclei in the adiabatic approximation

On the basis of the generalization of the integral formulae for nuclear widths to the three-body case and with using the adiabatic approximation the spontaneous and low-energy induced ternary fission of nuclei have been investigated. The properties of the partial-fission widths, energy and angular distributions of fragments for the ternary fission have been analyzed. The conditions have been found for which the angular distributions of two heavy fragments of ternary fission are close to analogous angular distributions of the binary fission. The characteristics of angular distributions, the values and particles of angular momentum of the third light fragment of the ternary fission have been investigated