Fission barriers of odd-mass nuclei within the HF-BCS and HTDA approaches

Abstract

Within two mean-field plus correlation descriptions (Hartree-Fock plus BCS or plus Highly Truncated Diagonalization Approaches) we study here some static properties of two odd-neutron nuclei (235U, 239Pu) from the ground-state deformation to the fission isomeric well, using three different Skyrme force parametrizations. A specific study of the polarization effects due to the account of relevant time-odd density functions is performed.