  Using the stabilized jellium model with self-compression, we have calculated
the dissociation energies and the barrier heights for the binary fragmentation
of charged silver clusters. At each step of calculations, we have used the
relaxed-state sizes and energies of the clusters. The results for the doubly
charged Ag clusters predict a critical size, at which evaporation dominates the
fission, in good agreement with the experiment. Comparing the dissociation
energies and the fission barrier heights with the experimental ones, we
conclude that in the experiments the fragmentation occurs before the full
structural relaxation expected after the ionization of the cluster. In the
decays of Ag$_N^{4+}$ clusters, the results predict that the charge-symmetric
fission processes are dominant for smaller clusters, and the charge-asymmetric
fission processes become dominant for sufficiently larger clusters.
