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The fission process is a fascinating phenomenon in which the atomic nucleus, a compact self-bound mesoscopic system, undergoes a spontaneous or induced quantum transition into two or more fragments. A predictive, accurate and precise…

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The number and properties of the neutrons and photons emitted in nuclear fission are directly related to the excitation energy of the fission fragments when they are formed at scission. Though not observable experimentally because of the…

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A microscopic description of nuclear fission represents one of the most challenging problems in nuclear theory. While phenomenological coordinates, such as multipole moments, have often been employed to describe fission, it is not obvious…

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An extension of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), the generalized time-dependent generator coordinate method (TDGCM), is applied to a study of induced nuclear fission dynamics. In the generalized TDGCM, the correlated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-11 B. Li , D. Vretenar , T. Nikši\' c , P. W. Zhao , J. Meng

We investigate the reaction path followed by Heavy Ion Collisions with exotic nuclear beams at low energies. We will focus on the interplay between reaction mechanisms, fusion vs. break-up (fast-fission, deep-inelastic), that in exotic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-01-28 C. Rizzo , V. Baran , M. Colonna , A. Corsi , M. Di Toro

We study the dynamics of multi-dimensional quantum tunneling by introducing a complex absorbing potential to a two-dimensional model for spontaneous fission. We fist diagonalize the Hamiltonian with the complex potential to determine a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Guillaume Scamps , Kouichi Hagino

The Skyrme nuclear energy density functional theory (DFT) is used to model neutron-induced fission in actinides. This paper focuses on the numerical implementation of the theory. In particular, it reports recent advances in DFT code…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 N. Schunck

When multiple fission modes coexist in a given nucleus, distinct fragment yield distributions appear. Multimodal fission has been observed in a number of fissioning nuclei spanning the nuclear chart, and this phenomenon is expected to…

Despite the wide existence of vesicles in living cells as well as their important applications like drug-delivery, the underlying mechanism of vesicle fusion/fission remains under debate. Here, we develop a constrained self-consistent field…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-22 Luofu Liu , Chao Duan , Rui Wang

We discuss the origin of the narrowness of the single peak at mass-symmetric division in the fragment mass-yield curve for spontaneous fission of $^{258}$Fm. For this purpose, we employ the macroscopic-microscopic model, and calculate a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-01-22 Takatoshi Ichikawa , Akira Iwamoto , Peter Möller

The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) provides a unified description of the structure and reaction. The linear approximation leads to the random-phase approximation (RPA) which is capable of describing a variety of collective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-09 Kai Wen , Kouhei Washiyama , Ni Fang , Takashi Nakatsukasa

Fission-fragment mass and total-kinetic-energy distributions following fission of the fermium isotopes $^{256,258,260}\text{Fm}$ at low excitation energy have been calculated using the Brownian shape-motion model. A transition from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-13 M. Albertsson , B. G. Carlsson , T. Døssing , P. Möller , J. Randrup , S. Åberg

The intrinsic excitation energy of fission fragments is dynamically evaluated in terms of the time dependent pairing equations. These equations are corroborated with two conditions. One of them fixes the number of particles and the another…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-06-06 M. Mirea

A weak dependence of the angular momentum of $^{144}$Ba fragments, produced in the spontaneous fission of $^{252}$Cf, on the total kinetic energy (TKE) was recently observed \cite{Giha2025}. To investigate this phenomenon, we propose a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-10 A. Rahmatinejad , T. M. Shneidman , G. G. Adamian , N. V. Antonenko

A rapidly converging 4-dimensional Fourier shape parametrization is used to model the fission process of heavy nuclei. Potential energy landscapes are computed within the macroscopic-microscopic approach, on top of which the…

Scattering analysis offers a fundamental route to revealing particle interactions with direct implications for device technologies relying on ensembles of particles such as magnetic skyrmions. Here, we directly visualize, in real time, the…

Due to the large value of the scattering length in nuclear systems, standard density--functional theories based on effective interactions usually fail to reproduce the nuclear Fermi liquid behavior both at very low densities and close to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 C. J. Yang , M. Grasso , D. Lacroix

We demonstrate the ability of the BSkG3 model to predict large-scale fission properties. In particular, we focus on the description of spontaneous fission half-lives, which are crucial for modeling the r-process. To assess the model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-25 Adrián Sánchez-Fernández , Silvia Bara , Wouter Ryssens , Stéphane Goriely

Theoretical description of nuclear fission remains one of the major challenges of quantum many-body dynamics. The slow, mostly adiabatic motion through the fission barrier is followed by a fast, non-adiabatic descent of the potential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-16 Guillaume Scamps , Cédric Simenel , Denis Lacroix

To describe of dynamics of ternary fission of $^{252}$Cf an equation of motion of the tri-nuclear system is calculated. The fission of the $^{70}$Ni+$^{50}$Ca+$^{132}$Sn channel was chosen as one of the more probable channels of true…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-15 R. B. Tashkhodjaev , A. K. Nasirov , E. Kh. Alpomeshev