Microscopic calculation ofPu240scission with a finite-range effective force

Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations of hot fission in ${}^{240}\mathrm{Pu}$ have been performed with a newly implemented code that uses the D1S finite-range effective interaction. The hot-scission line is identified in the quadrupole-octupole-moment coordinate space. Fission-fragment shapes are extracted from the calculations. A benchmark calculation for ${}^{226}\mathrm{Th}$ is obtained and compared with results in the literature. In addition, technical aspects of the use of HFB calculations for fission studies are examined in detail. In particular, the identification of scission configurations, the sensitivity of near-scission calculations to the choice of collective coordinates in the HFB iterations, and the formalism for the adjustment of collective-variable constraints are discussed. The power of the constraint-adjustment algorithm is illustrated with calculations near the critical scission configurations with up to seven simultaneous constraints.