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Fission of doubly charged metal clusters is studied using the open-shell two-center jellium Hartree-Fock approximation. Two-overlapping-spheroids shape parametrization allows one to obtain independent variation of deformations in the parent and daughter clusters. Results of calculations of the electronic structure and fission barriers for the symmetric channel associated with the process Na₁₈²⁺→2Na₉⁺ are presented. The importance of cluster-deformation effects in the fission process is reported. The model developed forms the basis for the systematic many-body theory of metal-cluster-fission phenomena.
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