Conveners
Session V
- Peter Butler (University of Liverpool)
The Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) at RIKEN provides the world’s highest intensity beams for the production of radioactive isotopes by in-flight fragmentation and fission. Stable beams at 345 MeV/u are impinging on primary targets and secondary beams are separated and identified in the BigRIPS fragment separator. In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy towards the drip-lines utilizes the DALI2...
Collective states in cold nuclei (yrast region) are represented by a wave function that assigns coherent phases to the participating nucleons. The degree of coherence decreases with excitation energy above the yrast line because of coupling to the increasingly dense background of quasiparticle excitations. The consequences of this damping mechanism will be discussed with a perspective on...
The microscopic self-consistent mean-field (SCMF) framework based on universal energy density functionals provides an accurate global description of nuclear ground states and collective excitations, from relatively light systems to super-heavy nuclei, and from the valley of beta-stability to the particle drip-lines. Based on this framework, structure models have been developed that go beyond...
Nuclear fission, one of the oldest if not the oldest challenge to theoretical many-body physics in literature, is still awaiting a fully quantum microscopic description with a robust predictive power. Since its experimental discovery in 1939 only a few theoretical results have been firmly established in the quantum theory of fission, while many phenomenological and microscopic models, based on...
