Open AccessTheoretical Description of the Fission Process
Author(s) -
W. Nazarewicz
Publication year - 2003
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/833167
Subject(s) - wkb approximation , fission , adiabatic process , actinide , nuclear fission , physics , process (computing) , statistical physics , energy (signal processing) , nuclear physics , binding energy , quantum mechanics , computer science , neutron , operating system
The main goals of the project can be summarized as follows: Development of effective energy functionals that are appropriate for the description of heavy nuclei. Our goal is to improve the existing energy density (Skyrme) functionals to develop a force that will be used in calculations of fission dynamics. Systematic self-consistent calculations of binding energies and fission barriers of actinide and trans-actinide nuclei using modern density functionals. This will be followed by calculations of spontaneous fission lifetimes and mass and charge divisions using dynamic adiabatic approaches based on the WKB approximation. Investigate novel microscopic (non-adiabatic) methods to study the fission process