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FUSION17
Volume 163, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
E D P SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201716300007
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- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-97ER41014]
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- DOE Office of Science User Facility [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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Two major recent developments in theory and computational resources created the favorable conditions for achieving a microscopic description of fission dynamics in classically allowed regions of the collective potential energy surface, almost eighty years after its discovery in 1939 by Hahn and Strassmann [1]. The first major development was in theory, the extension of the Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TODVI) 12-51 to supertluid fermion systems 161. The second development was in computing, the emergence of powerful enough supercomputers capable of solving the complex systems of equations describing the time evolution in three dimensions without any restrictions of hundreds of strongly interacting nucleons. Thus the conditions have been created to renounce phenomenological models and incomplete microscopic treatments with uncontrollable approximations and/or assumptions in the description of the complex dynamics of fission. Even though the available nuclear energy density functionals (NEDEs) are phenomenological still, their accuracy is improving steadily and the prospects of being able to perform calculations of the nuclear fission dynamics and to predict many properties of the fission fragments, otherwise not possible to extract from experiments.
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