Future of Nuclear Fission Theory

Michael Bender1, Rémi Bernard2,3, George Bertsch4, Satoshi Chiba5, Jacek Dobaczewski6,7,8, Noël Dubray3,9, Samuel A. Giuliani10, Kouichi Hagino11, Denis Lacroix12, Zhipan Li13, Piotr Magierski14, Joachim Maruhn15, Witold Nazarewicz16, Junchen Pei17, Sophie Péru3,9, Nathalie Pillet3,9, Jørgen Randrup18, David Regnier3,9, Paul-Gerhard Reinhard19, Luis M. Robledo20,21, Wouter Ryssens22, Jhilam Sadhukhan23,24, Guillaume Scamps25, Nicolas Schunck26, Cédric Simenel2, Janusz Skalski27, Ionel Stetcu28, Paul Stevenson29, Sait Umar30, Marc Verrière26,28, Dario Vretenar31, Michał Warda32, Sven Åberg33 1 IP2I Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France 2 Department of Theoretical Physics and Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia 3 CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France 4 Department of Physics and Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA 5 Tokyo Institute of Technology, 152-8550 Tokyo, Japan 6 Department of Physics, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom 7 Helsinki Institute of Physics, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland 8 Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland 9 Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Laboratoire Matière en Conditions Extrêmes, Bruyères-le-Châtel, France 10 FRIB Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 11 Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan 12 Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France 13 School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China 14 Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland 15 Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany 16 Department of Physics and Astronomy and FRIB Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 17 Department of Technical Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China 18 Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA 19 Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany 20 Center for Computational Simulation, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, E-28660 Madrid 21 Departamento de Física Teórica and CIAFF, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain 22 Center for Theoretical Physics, Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA 23 Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata 700064 24 Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai 400094, India 25 Institut d’Astronomie et d’Astrophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus de la Plaine CP 226, BE-1050 Brussels, Belgium 26 Nuclear and Chemical Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA 27 National Center for Nuclear Research, Pasteura 7, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland 28 Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA 29 Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom 30 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA 31 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia 32 Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland 33 Mathematical Physics, Lund University, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden jacek.dobaczewski@york.ac.uk
October 9, 2020
Abstract

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 neutrino interactions. At the same time, there have been important developments on a conceptual and computational level for the theory. The promising new theoretical avenues were the subject of a workshop held at the University of York in October 2019; this report summarises its findings and recommendations.

††: J. Phys. G: Nucl. Phys.

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