Advancing fission dynamics understanding in mercury isotopes with 5D Langevin model
A novel five-dimensional Langevin model developed by researchers from Science Tokyo and international collaborators has accurately simulated fission fragment distributions and kinetic energies in mercury isotopes 180Hg and 190Hg. This model successfully captures the anomalous double-peaked mass distribution in 180Hg and highlights the role of nuclear shell effects at elevated excitation energies