VARIATION OF TRANSPORT-COEFFICIENTS FOR AVERAGE FISSION DYNAMICS WITHTEMPERATURE AND SHAPE

We study slow collective motion at finite thermal excitations on the b asis of linear response theory applied to the locally harmonic approxi mation. The transport coefficients for average motion, friction gamma, inertia M and the local stiffness C are computed along a fission path of Th-224 within a quasi-static picture, The inverse relaxation time beta = gamma/M and the effective damping rate eta = gamma/(2 root M\C\ ) are found to increase with temperature, but do not change much with the collective variable. The values found for eta and beta as well as their behavior with temperature are in accord with experimental findin gs.