| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 242, 2020
International Workshop on Fission Product Yields (FPY 2019)
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| Article Number | 03005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Theory | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024203005 | |
| Published online | 28 September 2020 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024203005
Description of the Fission Process: Nuclear Models for Fission Dynamics
1 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
2 Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551, USA
* e-mail: verriere@lanl.gov
** e-mail: mumpower@lanl.gov
Published online: 28 September 2020
Nuclear fission is the splitting of a heavy nucleus into two or more fragments, a process that releases a substantial amount of energy. It is ubiquitous in modern applications, critical for national security, energy generation and reactor safeguards. Fission also plays an important role in understanding the astrophysical formation of elements in the universe. Eighty years after the discovery of the fission process, its theoretical understanding from first principles remains a great challenge. In this paper, we present promising new approaches to make more accurate predictions of fission observables.
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