Spontaneous and induced fission of very heavy and super-heavy nuclei

Europe/Rome
Meeting room (ECT* - Villa Tambosi - Trento)

Meeting room

ECT* - Villa Tambosi - Trento

Strada delle Tabarelle, 286 38123 - Villazzano (TN) Italy
Emanuele Vardaci (Università degli studi di Napoli), Nicolae Carjan (JINR Dubna & NIPNE-HH Bucharest), Yuri Oganessian (JINR Dubna)
Description

Spontaneous and induced fission of very heavy and super-heavy nuclei

In the 2nd semester of 2018 the Super Heavy Element Factory at JINR (Dubna) will deliver its first intense beam of 48Ca and experiments using a new gas filled separator and new detection modules will be carried out. The purpose is to study in details the nuclear, atomic and chemical properties of very heavy and superheavy elements with considerably improved statistics. Among the decay properties of these nuclei, particular attention will be given to nuclear fission.

In the same period the SPES facility, under development at the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy, is expected to enter the production stage of neutron-rich radioactive beams. With these beams the study of fission in unexplored regions of the nuclear chart will be possible, in particular in the region of very heavy neutron rich nuclei.

The main goal of the workshop is to discuss the state of the art of our present knowledge of fission and quasifission in the region of the very heavy and superheavy nuclei and to identify possible physics cases to be explored with the above two new facilities under development. These two facilities can play an extremely important and unique role in accessing, with different capabilities, unexplored regions of the nuclear chart, in particular the unknown neutron rich side. This area is particularly relevant because is of interest for the nucleosynthesis of the elements heavier that iron (r-process) and for the understanding of the existence and persistence of the shell closures. The latter are the main ingredient for the predicted survival of superheavy elements against fission.

Fundamental questions as well as unresolved problems will be on the agenda of the proposed workshop. For instance:

  1. How many protons and neutrons can a nucleus hold? Is the "Island of Stability" the last one?
  2. How does the strong Coulomb field and high nuclear density influence the fission and quasi fission processes?
  3. What controls the competition between alpha-decay and spontaneous fission?
  4. What influences most the fission half-lives: inertia, barrier height or barrier shape?
  5. Are there fission modes in the SF of nuclei with Z > 110?; is the most probable division symmetric or asymmetric?              

The Workshop is also intended to serve as a platform for proposals regarding experimental programs during the years of operation.

The program will be organized in such a way to favor open discussions between participants. The main structure will be introductory long invited talks (40 min) followed by long discussions (15 min). A balanced mix of theoretical and experimental topics will be carefully worked out to reach the main goal of the workshop.

To contribute to make the workshop successful, we propose to the invited speakers to review the existing theoretical and experimental results concerning fusion, fission and quasifission (such as fission barriers, half-lives, branching ratios, hindrance factors, mass and TKE distributions) and to focus on the study of fission and quasifission in unexplored regions of the nuclear chart, like the terra incognita or the new island of stability, which are of profound interest for the stellar nucleogenesis and for the understanding of the survival of the shell closures.

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Secretariat - Ines Campo Organizer - Vardaci E.
    • 09:30
      Registration Rustico Hall (ECT*)

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    • 1
      Welcome Meeting room

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      Speaker: Emanuele Vardaci (Università degli studi di Napoli)
    • Session 1: Super-Heavy Elements Fission Decay Meeting room

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      Chair: S. Hofmann

      Convener: Sigurd Hofmann (GSI, Darmstadt)
      • 2
        Fission of heaviest nuclei
        Speaker: Dr Yuri Oganessian (JINR Dubna)
      • 3
        Predictions Fission Fragment Mass Distributions for Super-Heavy Elements
        Speaker: Dr Nicolae Carjan (JINR Dubna & NIPNE-HH Bucharest)
    • 12:40
      Lunch Villa (ECT* canteen)

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    • Session 2: Super-Heavy Decay Meeting room

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      Chair: D. Poenaru

      Convener: Dorin Poenaru (Horia Hulubei National Institute, Bucharest)
      • 4
        Super-Heavy Nuclei:production and decay properties Meeting room

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        Speaker: Peter Möller (LANL, Los Alamos)
      • 5
        Spontaneous Fission Properties of Super-Heavy Nuclei Meeting room

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        Speaker: Fritz P. Heßberger (GSI, Darmstadt)
      • 16:10
        Coffee Break Villa (ECT*)

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      • 6
        Alpha Decay and Fission of High-K Isomers Meeting room

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        Speaker: Roderick Clark (LBNL, Berkeley)
    • Session 3: New Facilities 1 Meeting room

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      Chair: K. Rykaczewski

      Convener: Krzysztof Rykaczewski (ORNL, Oak Ridge)
      • 7
        SHE-FACTORY: A New Facility for Super-Heavy Element Research
        Speaker: Sergey Dmitriev (JINR, Dubna)
      • 8
        Impact of quasifission on SHE production
        Speaker: Mikhail Itkis (JINR, Dubna)
    • 11:10
      Coffee Break Villa (ECT*)

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    • Session 4: Multi-nucleon Transfer Meeting room

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      Chair: G. Ter Akopian

      Convener: Gurgen Ter-Akopian (JINR, Dubna)
      • 9
        Production of neutron-rich heavy and super-heavy nuclei in multinucleon transfer reactions
        Speaker: Alexander Karpov (JINR, Dubna)
      • 10
        Dynamical effects of superfluidity on multi-nucleon transfer, fusion and fission
        Speaker: Guillaume Scamps (University of Tsukuba)
    • 13:10
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    • Session 5: Reaction Mechanisms Meeting room

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      Convener: Emanuele Vardaci (Università degli studi di Napoli)
      • 11
        Symmetric, asymmetric and super-asymmetric modes in fission and quasifission of heavy and super-heavy nuclei Meeting room

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        Speaker: Iulia Itkis (JINR, Dubna)
      • 12
        Microscopic studies of fission dynamics based on energy density functionals Meeting room

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        Speaker: Dario Vretenar (University of Zagreb)
      • 16:10
        Coffee Break Villa (ECT*)

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      • 13
        Time-dependent Density Functional Theory for nuclear reactions – advantages and disadvantages Meeting room

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        Speaker: Piotr Magierski (Warsaw University)
    • Session 6: New Facilities 2 Meeting room

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      Chair: M. Itkis

      Convener: Mikhail Itkis (JINR, Dubna)
      • 14
        Super-heavy Element Research at GSI
        Speaker: Michael Block (GSI, Darmsdadt)
      • 15
        Fission Barriers of Super-Heavy Nuclei and Search for Element 120
        Speaker: Sigurd Hofmann (GSI, Darmstadt)
    • 11:10
      Coffee Break Villa (ECT*)

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    • Session 7: New Facilities 3 Meeting room

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      Chair: S. Dmitriev

      Convener: Sergey Dmitriev (JINR, Dubna)
      • 16
        The SPES project at the INFN- Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
        Speaker: Gianfranco Prete (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)
      • 17
        Exotic nuclei and the SPES radioactive ion beam facility
        Speaker: Giacomo de Angelis (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)
    • 13:10
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    • Session 8: Use of RIBs Meeting room

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      Chair: M. Block

      Convener: Michael Block (GSI, Darmsdadt)
      • 18
        Contributions to the science program at the SHE Factory and SPES Meeting room

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        Speaker: Krzysztof Rykaczewski (ORNL, Oak Ridge)
      • 19
        Radioactive ion beams for the fission study of the heaviest neutron-rich nuclei Meeting room

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        Speaker: Gurgen Ter-Akopian (JINR, Dubna)
      • 16:10
        Coffee Break Villa (ECT*)

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      • 20
        Secondary heavy ion beams as a tool for investigation of fusion mechanism Meeting room

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        Speaker: Greg Chubarian (Cyclotron Lab, Texas A & M)
    • Session 9: More on Spontaneous Fission 1 Meeting room

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      Chair: N. Carjan

      Convener: Dr Nicolae Carjan (JINR Dubna & NIPNE-HH Bucharest)
      • 21
        Theory of spontaneous fission of super heavy nuclei and its competitor decay modes
        Speaker: Dorin Poenaru (Horia Hulubei National Institute, Bucharest)
      • 22
        Spontaneous Fission of SHE: A New Source of Insights into the Structure of Neutron-Rich Nuclei
        Speaker: Christopher Zachary
    • 11:10
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    • Session 10: More on Spontaneous Fission 2 Meeting room

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      Chair: P. Möller

      Convener: Peter Möller (LANL, Los Alamos)
      • 23
        Fission hindrance of heaviest high-K isomers
        Speaker: Michal Kowal (NCBJ, Warsaw)
      • 24
        From instantons to spontaneous fission rates
        Speaker: Janusz Skalski (NCBJ, Warsaw)
    • 13:10
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    • Session 11: More on Spontaneous Fission 3 Meeting room

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      Chair: A. Karpov

      Convener: Alexander Karpov (JINR, Dubna)
      • 25
        An instanton-motivated approach to the spontaneous fission of odd nuclei Meeting room

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        Speaker: Wojciech Brodzińki (NCBJ, Warsaw)
      • 26
        Half-lives of nuclei around the super-heavy nucleus 304120 Meeting room

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        Speaker: Ion Silisteanu
      • 16:10
        Coffee Break Villa (ECT*)

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      • 27
        Probing the evolution of the fission modes with a microscopic approach Meeting room

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        Speaker: David Regnier (IPN, Orsay)
    • Session 12: Cluster Radioactivity Meeting room

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      Chair: D. Poenaru

      Convener: Dorin Poenaru (Horia Hulubei National Institute, Bucharest)
      • 28
        Correspondence between cluster radioactivity of and asymmetric fission of super-heavy nuclei
        Speaker: Michal Warda (UMCS, Lublin)
      • 29
        Cluster emission in 294Og
        Speaker: Zachary Matheson (Michigan State University)
    • 11:10
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    • White paper: Concluding Remarks Meeting room

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    • 12:30
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