https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20136302009
Brownian shape dynamics in fission
1 LBNL, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
2 LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, USA
a e-mail: JRandrup@LBL.gov
Published online: 19 December 2013
It was recently shown that remarkably accurate fission-fragment mass distributions are obtained by treating the nuclear shape evolution as a Brownian walk on previously calculated five-dimensional potentialenergy surfaces; the current status of this novel method is described here.
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