EPJ Web of Conferences 21, 08006 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20122108006

Brownian shape motion: Fission fragment mass distributions

¹ Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
² Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA

^a e-mail: JRandrup@LBL.gov

Abstract

It was recently shown that remarkably accurate fission-fragment mass distributions can be obtained by treating the nuclear shape evolution as a Brownian walk on previously calculated five-dimensional potential-energy surfaces; the current status of this novel method is described here.