Y. Aboussir's research while affiliated with Université de Montréal and other places

... In addition, the height of the fission barrier in the triaxial path-2 is almost comparable with the second fission barrier of the axial one in the lighter isotopes but higher than that in the heavier isotopes. Furthermore, regarding the fission barrier height, the nuclei 296 119 It should be pointed out that other theoretical values are obtained based on the FY single-particle potential and the finite-range droplet model (FRDM), namely 'FFD' [75], the so-called 'heavy nuclei' (HN) model [13], the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (SHFB) approaches [76], the ETFSI methods [77], and the CDFT calculations [78]. Note that our calculated PESs are very soft near their ground-state equilibrium point. ...

... Notice that OF-DFT bears some resemblance to what have, in the nuclear physics context, been called the Thomas-Fermi (TF) or extended TF (ETF) approximations [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. In Ref. [ 10 ], it was demonstrated that the ETF appr oximation pr ovides a good description of the ground-state energy but it yields an incorrect tail for the density distribution (see also Ref. [ 18 ]). ...

... During the last decades, several efforts have been devoted to the systematic estimation of fission barriers [8][9][10][11][12][13], spontaneous fission half-lives [13][14][15], and fragment distributions [16][17][18][19][20] of r-process nuclei. However, due to the inherent complexities characterizing the theoretical description of the fission process [21], most of the available calculations resort to phenomenological approaches based on simplified assumptions. ...