During the last several years we have been developing models and computational tools to describe low-energy fission in a configuration-interaction representation. The approach can be viewed as a generalization of the Generator Coordinate Method that allows many configurations to contribute to the dynamics but avoids the construction of a many-dimensional Schroedinger equation. The main...
Quasifission reactions have been of great interest in recent years particularly in connections with the formation of superheavy elements and a source for producing neutron rich nuclei. Such reactions proceed through regions of periodic table where the dynamical evolution of quantal shell effects influence the formation of final fragments. The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT)...
A robust description of the process of nuclear fission is essential to many research domains ranging from nuclear energy, national security, and nuclear data. However, owing to the nuclear many-body problem, a description of fission based on nucleon-nucleon interactions is unfeasible given current computational limitations, which has led to a number of alternative methods that greatly reduce...
The availability of heavy-ion beams at high-intensity, coupled to sensitive, large solid-angle acceptance spectrometers has enabled a detailed examination of the reaction residues produced in induced-fission reactions. Fission fragment production was studied using a uranium beam provided by the Coupled Cyclotron Facility (CCF) at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at...
