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Superfluidity is a generic feature of various quantum systems at low temperatures and it is in particular important for the description of dynamics of low energy nuclear reactions. The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is, to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 M. C. Barton , S. Jin , P. Magierski , K. Sekizawa , G. Wlazłowski , A. Bulgac

Fusion dynamics and the onset of quasi-fission in reactions, leading to production of superheavy nuclei are investigated using the constrained molecular dynamics model. Constraints on the parameters of the nuclear equation of state are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 J. Klimo , M. Veselsky , G. A. Souliotis , A. Bonasera

We investigate the fusion barriers for reactions involving Ca isotopes $\mathrm{^{40}Ca}+\mathrm{^{40}Ca}$, $\mathrm{^{40}Ca}+\mathrm{^{48}Ca}$, and $\mathrm{^{48}Ca}+\mathrm{^{48}Ca}$ using the microscopic time-dependent Hartree-Fock…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-04-12 R. Keser , A. S. Umar , V. E. Oberacker

We provide a microscopic description of the fusion reactions between $^{40,48}$Ca and $^{78}$Ni. The internuclear potentials are obtained using the density-constrained (DC) time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) approach and fusion cross…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-28 Xiang-Xiang Sun , Lu Guo , A. S. Umar

The dinuclear system model incorporates several essential input physical quantities, including nuclear mass, fission barrier, shell correction energy, level density parameter, and shell damping factor, etc., which are derived from diverse…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-13 Wei Zhang , Shi-Jie Zhang , Peng-Hui Chen

Background: Nuclear fission is a complex large-amplitude collective decay mode in heavy nuclei. Microscopic density functional studies of fission have previously concentrated on adiabatic approaches based on constrained static calculations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-11-18 P. M. Goddard , P. D. Stevenson , A. Rios

Recent progresses in the description of the latter stage of nuclear fission are reported. Dynamical effects during the descent of the potential towards scission and in the formation of the fission fragments are studied with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-21 C. Simenel , G. Scamps , D. Lacroix , A. S. Umar

Collisions of actinide nuclei form, during very short times of few $10^{-21}$ s, the heaviest ensembles of interacting nucleons available on Earth. Such very heavy ions collisions have been proposed as an alternative way to produce heavy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-02 Cédric Golabek , Cédric Simenel

Time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory has been a powerful tool in describing a variety of complex nuclear dynamics microscopically without empirical parameters. In this contribution, recent advances in nuclear dynamics studies with TDHF…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-26 Kazuyuki Sekizawa

Quantum shell effects induce an asymmetric fission mode in actinides, which disappears in neutron deficient isotopes. Quasi-fission, characterized by a significant mass transfer in heavy ion collisions at low-energies, is expected to be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-02 C. Simenel , A. S. Umar , K. Godbey , P. McGlynn

Background: Near-barrier fusion can be strongly affected by the coupling between relative motion and internal degrees of freedom of the collision partners. The time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory and the coupled-channels (CC) method…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-09 C. Simenel , M. Dasgupta , D. J. Hinde , E. Williams

A system of equations is obtained for the Cooper gap in nuclei. The system takes two mechanisms of superfluidity into account in an approximation quadratic in the phonon- production amplitude : a Bardeen- Cooper- Schrieffer (BCS) type…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 A. V. Avdeenkov , S. P. Kamerdzhiev

The synthesis of superheavy elements strongly relies on the competition of the quasifission and fusion fission dynamics in the fusion-evaporation reactions. The systematics on the formation of superheavy nuclei in the $^{48}$Ca, $^{50}$Ti,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-25 Zi-Han Wang , Peng-Hui Chen , Ya-Ling Zhang , Ming-Hui Huang , Zhao-Qing Feng

Background: Heavy-ion fusion reactions at energies near the Coulomb barrier are influenced by couplings between the relative motion and nuclear intrinsic degrees of freedom of the colliding nuclei. The time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 D. Bourgin , C. Simenel , S. Courtin , F. Haas

As an extension of previous work, we calculate the production cross-section of heavy neutron-rich isotopes by employing the quantal diffusion description to ${}^{48} \text{Ca} + {}^{238} \text{U}$ collisions. The quantal diffusion is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-15 S. Ayik , M. Arik , E. C. Karanfil , O. Yilmaz , B. Yilmaz , A. S. Umar

We study fusion reactions of the $^{64}$Ni+$^{64}$Ni system using the density-constrained time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) formalism. In this formalism the fusion barriers are directly obtained from TDHF dynamics. In addition, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. S. Umar , V. E. Oberacker

Many-body techniques for the calculation of quasielastic nuclear matter response functions in the fully antisymmetrized random phase approximation on a Hartree-Fock basis are discussed in detail. The methods presented here allow for an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. De Pace

This article reviews how nuclear fission is described within nuclear density functional theory. In spontaneous fission, half-lives are the main observables and quantum tunnelling the essential concept, while in induced fission the focus is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-21 N. Schunck , L. M. Robledo

The fusion probability for the production of superheavy nuclei in cold fusion reactions was investigated and compared with recent experimental results for $^{48}$Ca, $^{50}$Ti, and $^{54}$Cr incident on a $^{208}$Pb target. Calculations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 T. Cap , M. Kowal , K. Siwek-Wilczyńska

Despite recent advances and focus on rigorous uncertainty quantification for microscopic models of quantum many-body systems, the uncertainty on the dynamics of those systems has been under-explored. To address this, we have used…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 K. Godbey , A. S. Umar , C. Simenel