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Understanding fission fragment mass distributions in a modified shape of random neck rupture model

The variances of the fission fragment mass distributions for symmetric fission over a wide range of the fissility of the compound nucleus have been investigated within the frame work of Random Neck Rupture Model (RNRM) proposed by Brosa et. al.,. The shape of the fissioning nucleus is generated using crel=1 in the RNRM model, which results in a smooth and continuous shape of fissioning nucleus. This modified shape of RNRM model has been used to analyse experimental data of mass variances for symmetric mass distributions of 27 systems leading to understanding of scission shape dynamics in a wide region of fissility 0.7-0.95. The neck radius is an important parameter of the RNRM model and this has been varied to fit the experimental mass variances data. The systematics of resulting neck radii are studied of as a function fissility and nuclear potential through γo, the surface energy coefficient. Further average total kinetic energies of fission fragments <TKE> are studied of as a function of fissility and γo parameter. It is observed that the neck radii that fit the experimentally observed variances of the mass distributions fall into two groups and these groups are related to two groups of experimentally observed <TKE>s. Empirical formulae have been obtained for the neck radii for these two groups of fissioning systems. Use of the empirical formulae for neck radii predict the mass variances reasonably well for these systems and it is shown that these empirical neck radii are better estimates than starting with the Rayleigh criterion.16pages,7 figures