Fission profile in 256Fm

The nuclear fission is one of the most challenging quantum many-body problems, due to the difficulty of finding a proper formulation of the evolution from a compound nucleus to fission fragments. The optimum trajectories, the associated shapes and energy in the fissioning nuclei at high angular momentum are studied. Hence the effect of angular momentum in the fission profile of a nucleus 256Fm is looked in to. Here the results for 256Fm, which was one among the most studied nuclei in various approaches are discussed. An independent-particle shell model with the mean field represented by the deformed Woods-Saxon potential is utilized. The main development in this work is the extension of Cassinian oval calculations to study the rotating nuclei. The properties of a fissioning nuclei at fixed spin is achieved by tuning the rotation frequency to get the desired angular momentum. The details about the calculations and the evolution of potential energy surfaces are explained in literature. The effect of spin in the fission profile is shown