CONTENTS -- Preface -- Fission kills nuclear ropes loops and chains -- Semiclassical calculation of shell effects in deformed nuclei -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Semiclassical explanation of the onset of mass asymmetry -- 3 Inclusion of spin-orbit interaction in POT -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Coupling of the collective pairing vibrations with the fission mode -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The model -- 3 Coupling of the pairing vibrations with the fission mode -- 4 Conclusions: -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Fission studies with large detector arrays -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A new determination of the Ba-Mo yield matrix for 252Cf -- 3 Cold Binary Spontaneous Fission -- 4 Light Charged Particle Ternary Fission -- 5 Identification of the cold 10Be ternary SF pairs of 252Cf -- 6 Acknowledgment -- References -- Adiabatic and non-adiabatic dynamics of ions in the formation of electron excitation widths in metal clusters -- 1 Introduction. -- 2 Dynamical jellium model. -- 3 Conclusions. -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Fission decay of nuclei and the extension of the periodic system -- Fission in (the light of) a quark-gluon liquid theory of the nucleons -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The baryonic string force in the nuclear bag -- 3 Derivation of the baryonic string force -- 4 Nuclear liquid systems 5 -- 5 Phases of nuclear liquid state -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Statistical modeling of nuclear systematics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Global Models of Atomic-Mass Data -- 3 Global Models of B~ -Decay Halflives -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Toroidal structures in light nuclei -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Nonrelativistic Framework -- 3 The Nuclear Structures -- References -- Neutron Halo of Fissile Nuclei -- References -- Search for possible isomer 232Pa -- REFERENCES.

Broken symmetry in nuclear matter -- References -- The diverse manifestations of fission of classical and quantal droplets -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Classical droplets -- 3 Quantal effects around scission -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Energy-density functional approach to fission and half-lives of superheavy elements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The EDF Theory of Fission -- References -- Decay channels of hot nuclei and hot metalic clusters -- 1 The decay of hot nuclei -- References -- Cluster radioactivity -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 NEW RESULTS AND CURRENT EXPERIMENTAL SITUATION -- 3 MASS DISTRIBUTIONS OF COLD DECAYS -- 4 TRANSITION BETWEEN CLUSTER- AND FISSION-LIKE TYPES OF DECAYS -- 5 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- Static and dynamical properties of simple metal clusters: Analogies with atomic nuclei -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Electronic shell and supershell effects -- 3 Shape deformations -- 4 Fragmentation of charged clusters -- 5 Optical response along the fission path -- 6 From fission to fragmentation and Coulomb explosion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- The role of exotica in studying nuclear fission -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Radiationless excitation -- 3 Prompt-to-delayed fission ratio. -- 4 Muon attachment probabilities -- References -- Particle-acompanied fission -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Experiment -- 3 Results and Discussion -- 4 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Alpha-particle structure on the surface of the atomic nucleus -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mixed parity bands mean assymetric bosonic structure -- 3 Theoretical approaches -- 4 More experiments required -- References -- Superasymmetric fission -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Experimental results -- 3 Theoretical model analisys -- 4 Formation of neutron rich nuclides in fission -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Quaternary fission.

1 Introduction and Experimental Setup -- 2 Quaternary Fission -- 3 Summary -- References -- Bremsstrahlung emission in alpha-decay -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Classical theory -- 3 The theory of Papenbrock and Bertsch -- 4 A low energy theorem -- 5 Semi-classical theory -- 6 Derivation of the semi-classical result -- 7 Conclusions -- 8 Acknowledgments -- A model for particle induced fission -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Theory -- 3 Results and Discussion -- References -- On the half-lives of trinuclear molecules -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The reaction model -- 3 Results -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Fusion-fission reactions of heaviest nuclei. Synthesis of superheavy elements with Z = 114 and 116 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Experimental Technique -- 3 Characteristics of Mass and Energy Distributions of SHE Fission Fragments -- 4 Capture and fusion-fission cross sections -- 5 Neutron and gamma-ray multiplicities in the fission of superheavy nuclei -- 6 Experimental Results on the Synthesis of Superheavy Nuclei -- 7 Discussion -- 8 Addendum -- 9 Acknowledgements -- References -- Puzzling results on nuclear shells from the properties of fission channels -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Secondary-beam Experiment -- 3 Results and Discussion -- 4 Summary -- References -- Emission of light charged particles from fission fragments of uranium nuclei induced by slow negative muons and pions protons with energy of 153 and 1000 MeV and negative pions at 1700 MeV -- 1 Experiment -- 2 Results -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Possible explanation of the difference in nuclear fission induced by the intermediate energy protons and neutrons -- References -- Scission configurations in cold fission -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Energy balance at scission -- 3 The distribution of excitation energy in the fission fragments -- 4 Conclusions -- References.