Atomic nuclei are quantum many-body systems of protons and neutrons held together by
strong nuclear forces. Under the proper conditions, nuclei can break into two (sometimes …

This article reviews how nuclear fission is described within nuclear density functional theory.
A distinction should be made between spontaneous fission, where half-lives are the main …

There has been much recent interest in nuclear fission, due in part to a new appreciation of
its relevance to astrophysics, stability of superheavy elements, and fundamental theory of …

Microscopic methods and tools to describe nuclear dynamics have considerably been
improved in the past few years. They are based on the time-dependent Hartree–Fock …

Nuclear fission of heavy (actinide) nuclei results predominantly in asymmetric mass splits.
Without quantum shell effects, which can give extra binding energy to their mass-asymmetric …

An overview is given on some of the main advances in the experimental methods,
experimental results, theoretical models and ideas of the last few years in the field of nuclear …

We describe the fissioning dynamics of Pu 240 from a configuration in the proximity of the
outer fission barrier to full scission and the formation of the fragments within an …

This is an exciting time for the study of r-process nucleosynthesis. Recently, a neutron star
merger GW170817 was observed in extraordinary detail with gravitational waves and …

The basic concepts and recent developments in the time-dependent density-functional
theory (TDDFT) for describing nuclear dynamics at low energy are presented. The symmetry …

In the exothermic process of fission decay, an atomic nucleus splits into two or more
independent fragments. Several aspects of nuclear fission are not properly understood, in …