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 …

The rapid neutron capture or 'r process' of nucleosynthesis is believed to be responsible for
the production of approximately half the natural abundance of heavy elements found on the …

There is no unique and widely accepted definition of the complexity measure (CM) of a
many-fermion wave function in the presence of interactions. The simplest many-fermion …

A recent analysis of experimental data [J. Wilson, Nature (London) 590, 566 (2021) NATUAS
0028-0836 10.1038/s41586-021-03304-w] found that the angular momenta of nuclear …

During nuclear fission, a heavy nucleus splits into two rotating fragments. The associated
angular momentum is large, yet the mechanism of its generation and its dependence on the …

We present the first fully unrestricted microscopic calculations of the primary fission fragment
intrinsic spins and of the fission fragments' relative orbital angular momentum for U 236*, Pu …

We discuss how the measurement of photon angular correlations can reveal information
about the orientation of the fission fragment angular momenta. Photons from identified …

We investigate the angular momentum removal from fission fragments (FFs) through neutron
and γ-ray emission, finding that about half the neutrons are emitted with angular momenta≥ …

New experimental and theoretical results obtained in 2021 made it acutely clear that more
than 80 years after the discovery of nuclear fission we do not understand the generation and …

The paper reviews recent developments in γ-ray spectroscopy of the neutron-rich fragments
produced in nuclear fission. This subject has been an intensive area of study spanning more …