Shell effects in quasifission and implications for fission

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Abstract

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) has been found to be an excellent theoretical tool to study these reactions microscopically [1-4]. In this talk we discuss the recent results for quasifission reactions obtained using the TDDFT. In, particular we focus on the observed shell effects in these calculations and their relevance and/or relationship for shell effects in fission dynamics.

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Publication: [1] C. Simenel and A. S. Umar, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 103, 19 (2018)
[2] C. Simenel, K. Godbey, and A. S. Umar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 212504 (2020)
[3] K. Godbey, C. Simenel, and A. S. Umar, Phys. Rev. C 101, 034602 (2020)
[4] K. Godbey, A. S. Umar, and C. Simenel, Phys. Rev. C 100, 024610 (2019)

Presenters

  • Sait A Umar

    Vanderbilt University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA

Authors

  • Sait A Umar

    Vanderbilt University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA

  • Kyle Godbey

    Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA

  • C. Simenel

    Australian National University, The Australian National University, Department of Theoretical Physics and Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia