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Perturbing fluids of neutrons and protons (nuclear matter) may lead, as the most catastrophic effect, to the rearrangement of the fluid into clusters of nucleons. A similar process may occur in a single atomic nucleus undergoing a violent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-23 P. Napolitani , M. Colonna , C. Mancini-Terracciano

At the early stage of the Universe evolution, when photons and neutrinos are no longer able to prevent nucleosynthesis, the key role is given to neutron component of matter. Neutron component creates a certain variety of the lightest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nurgali Takibayev

After a successful core collapse supernova (CCSN) explosion, a hot dense proto-neutron star (PNS) is left as a remnant. Over a time of twenty or so seconds, this PNS emits the majority of the neutrinos that come from the CCSN, contracts,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Luke F. Roberts , Sanjay Reddy

Decay of $^{210}$Po compound nucleus formed in light and heavy-ion induced fusion reactions has been analyzed simultaneously using a consistent prescription for fission barrier and nuclear level density incorporating shell correction and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-09-30 K. Mahata , S. Kailas , S. S. Kapoor

Astrophysical nucleosynthesis is a family of diverse processes by which atomic nuclei undergo nuclear reactions and decays to form new nuclei. The complex nature of nucleosynthesis, which can involve as many as tens of thousands of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 T. M. Sprouse , M. R. Mumpower , R. Surman

Recent developments in theoretical modeling and in computational power have allowed us to make significant progress on a goal not achieved yet in nuclear theory: a fully microscopic theory of nuclear fission. The complete microscopic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-23 Aurel Bulgac , Shi Jin , Ionel Stetcu

The fusion process and the competition between fission and n, p and alpha-particle emission is studied. The calculations are performed for nuclei at excitation energies from 80 MeV up to about 300 MeV. The nuclear fission is described by a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Pomorski , K. Dietrich , W. Przystupa , J. Bartel , J. Richert

The scission neutron kinetic energy spectrum is calculated for $^{236}U$ in the frame of the dynamical scission model. The bi-dimensional time dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation with time dependent potential is used to propagate each…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 N. Carjan , M. Rizea

The emission of prompt fission $\gamma$ rays within a few nanoseconds to a few microseconds following the scission point is studied in the Hauser-Feshbach formalism applied to the deexcitation of primary excited fission fragments. Neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 P. Talou , T. Kawano , I. Stetcu , J. P. Lestone , E. McKigney , M. B. Chadwick

A nucleus is a quantum many body system made of strongly interacting Fermions, protons and neutrons (nucleons). This produces a rich Nuclear Equation of State whose knowledge is crucial to our understanding of the composition and evolution…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-03-07 G. Giuliani , H. Zheng , A. Bonasera

When energy of colliding nuclei is between 100-600 MeV/nucleon then multifragmentation take place. By studying the fragments (at final stage of reaction) we can seize the idea about initial condition and various other parameter which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-12-15 Rubina Bansal , Suneel Kumar

The neutron population in a nuclear reactor is subject to fluctuations in time and in space due to the competition of diffusion by scattering, births by fission events, and deaths by absorptions. As such, fission chains provide a prototype…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-09 Bahram Houchmandzadeh , Eric Dumonteil , Alain Mazzolo , Andrea Zoia

Nuclear reactions induced by stable and/or radioactive neutron-rich nuclei provide the opportunity to pin down the equation of state of neutron-rich matter, especially the density ($\rho$) dependence of its isospin-dependent part, i.e., the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Bao-An Li , Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Andrew W. Steiner

We have extended significantly the microscopic description of the fission process by examining a larger set of observables. We extract neutron and proton numbers of fission fragments, their spins and fission fragment relative orbital…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-12 Aurel Bulgac

Nuclear fission produces fragments whose spins are coupled to the relative angular motion via angular momentum conservation. It is shown how ensembles of such spins can readily be obtained by either direct microcanonical sampling or by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Jorgen Randrup

We study the impact of fission on the production and destruction of translead nuclei during the r-process nucleosynthesis occurring in neutron-star mergers. Abundance patterns and rates of nuclear energy production are obtained for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 Samuel A. Giuliani , Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo , Meng-Ru Wu , Luis M. Robledo

The core of a massive star (M > 8 Msun) eventually collapses. This implosion usually triggers a supernova (SN) explosion that ejects most of the stellar envelope and leaves behind a neutron star (NS) with a mass of up to about 2 Msun.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 Georg G. Raffelt , Hans-Thomas Janka , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo

The mergers of binary neutron stars, as well as black hole-neutron star systems, are expected to produce an electromagnetic counterpart that can be analyzed to infer the element synthesis that occurred in these events. We investigate one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Y. L. Zhu , K. Lund , J. Barnes , T. M. Sprouse , N. Vassh , G. C. McLaughlin , M. R. Mumpower , R. Surman

It is generally believed that isospin would diminish in its importance as we go towards heavy mass region due to isospin mixing caused by the growing Coulomb forces. However, it was realized quite early that isospin could become an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Ashok Kumar Jain , Swati Garg

Fissioning nuclei and fission fragments, nuclear fragments emerging from energetic collisions, or nuclei probed with various external fields can emit one or more pre-equilibrium neutrons, protons, and potentially other heavier nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-23 A. Bulgac