LCP-accompanied fission to symmetric tripartition of heavy and superheavy nuclei

Break-up of a nucleus into three fragments, known as ternary fission covers a spectrum of three particle fission events from a scission neutron accompanying the two main fission fragments, to the three fragments of about equal masses. The ternary fission process with three charged particles in the outgoing channel, with a very light third particle compared to the main fission fragments is situated between these two extremes and is called as light charged particle (LCP) accompanied fission. This very asymmetric ternary fission is a competing decay mode for binary fission and is observed in spontaneous and induced ternary fissions of various actinides.