Nuclear Matter Dynamics in Real Time and the Heaviest Elements in Nature

PI Aurel Bulgac, University of Washington
Co-PI Piotr Magierski, Warsaw University of Technology
Kenneth Roche, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Gauillaume Scamps, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Kazuyuki Sekizawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Ionel Stetcu, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Gabriel Wlazłowski, Warsaw University of Technology
Bulgac Graphic

The first ever evaluation of the FF orbital angular momentum in the spontaneous fission of 252Cf (to be submitted soon for publication to either Nature or Phys. Rev. Lett.).

Project Summary

This INCITE project is using the full quantum mechanical predictive tools needed to quantitatively describe nuclear fission, collisions of heavy ions, and fusion—including the total kinetic energy released, the properties and excitation energies of the fission fragments, their masses, charges, excitation energies, angular momenta, the spectra of emitted neutrons, the multinucleon, and the energy transfer in low and medium energy heavy-ion collisions.

Project Description

Nuclear physics is poised to answer fundamental questions about nature, but these questions are complex and the answers require the latest developments in theory, high-performance computing, and new emerging compute elements and architectures.

Bulgac’s team is using the full quantum mechanical predictive tools needed to quantitatively describe nuclear fission, collisions of heavy ions, and fusion—including the total kinetic energy released, the properties and excitation energies of the fission fragments, their masses, charges, excitation energies, angular momenta, the spectra of emitted neutrons, the multinucleon, and the energy transfer in low and medium energy heavy-ion collisions.

The microscopic description of low-energy heavy-ion reactions, in particular the calculation of fusion cross-sections and of nucleon transfer cross-sections, has fundamental and practical importance. These reactions are relevant for the physics at the Facility for Rare Isotopes Beams and many other laboratories in US and across the world for further pursuing the quest for superheavy elements, for extending the periodic table of elements, and for explaining the origin and the abundance of chemical elements in the Universe.

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