vissionsbarriär

Vissionsbarriär is not a standard term in physics; it is likely a misspelling or variation of fissionsbarriär, the fission barrier in nuclear physics. The fission barrier is the energy a nucleus must overcome, along its deformation path, to split into two fragments. It is defined as the difference between the ground-state energy and the highest energy point along the fission path (the saddle point).

The barrier arises from the competition between the short-range nuclear surface energy, which favors a compact shape, and the long-range Coulomb repulsion among protons, which favors deformation. In many heavy nuclei, the barrier can have a multi-humped structure, with inner and sometimes outer barriers separated by a metastable region. Shell effects at specific proton and neutron numbers can raise or lower the barrier, affecting stability and fission probabilities.

Relevance and measurements: The fission barrier strongly influences spontaneous fission lifetimes, since quantum tunneling through the barrier governs the decay rate. It also affects neutron-induced fission cross sections and reactor physics, as well as certain nucleosynthesis scenarios in extreme environments. Directly measuring barrier heights is challenging; they are typically inferred from fission cross sections, decay lifetimes, and theoretical models.

Modeling: The barrier is commonly described in macroscopic-microscopic models that add shell corrections to a liquid-drop energy, as well as in self-consistent mean-field approaches that compute potential-energy surfaces as functions of nuclear deformation. Modern calculations provide barrier heights and shapes that are compared with experimental data to improve understanding of nuclear stability and fission dynamics.