https://doi.org/10.65770/CVEQ6200
ABSTRACT
The three parameters that determine that a super-heavy nucleus undergoes spontaneous fission (SF) or cluster disintegration (CD) are nuclear reaction energy, Q, half-life ( ) of the super-heavy nucleus and the quantity of the super-heavy nucleus. Using Modified Coulomb potential energy in the binding energy formula, values of Q, , and change. Calculating the magnitude of these quantities give the idea as to how the variations in N, Z and A determine the possibility of cluster disintegration and or spontaneous fission. Using Modified Coulomb energy formula in the expression for binding energy of the atomic nucleus, calculations are done for volume energy, surface energy, coulomb energy and nuclear reaction energy, Q. For the nucleus to disintegrate spontaneously, Q must be positive, and this is what is found in this article for the chosen super-heavy nuclei. Calculations show that Q is small for cluster disintegration and it is large for spontaneous fission. How the splitting of the core and neutrons in the neutron skin region are distributed among the fragments on disintegration is discussed, along with Alpha-particle structure of the nucleus.
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