The process of spontaneous or induced fission, by which an atomic nucleus breaks into two or more fragments, presents, more than eight decades after its discovery, a very interesting research topic in the field of low- and medium-energy nuclear physics. From a modern perspective, nuclear fission can be considered a representative example of large-amplitude collective motion in a self-bound...
In the first microscopic description of induced fission, based on a full implementation of the Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) extended to superfluid fermion system, using only 8 well known parameters (energy and density of symmetric nuclear matter, nuclear surface tension, symmetry energy and its density dependence, strength of the spin-orbit and pairing interactions, and...
In recent times, new theoretical and experimental results made it clear that the generation and dynamics of fission fragment (FF) intrinsic spins and their correlations were not well understood. During this period, we investigated various aspects of FF spins for compound nuclei 236U, 240Pu, and 252Cf using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) extended to superfluid systems. We...
