Mass Distributions Beyond TDHF

TL;DR

This paper investigates mass distributions in nuclear reactions beyond standard TDHF by using the Balian-Veneroni variational technique, revealing significantly larger distributions than traditional methods.

Contribution

It introduces a novel application of the Balian-Veneroni variational approach within a 3D TDHF framework to improve mass distribution predictions in nuclear decay and collision processes.

Findings

Mass distributions are significantly larger than standard TDHF results.

The method applies to giant dipole resonances and deep-inelastic collisions.

Realistic Skyrme interactions are used in the calculations.

Abstract

The mass distributions for giant dipole resonances in 32S and 132Sn decaying through particle emission and for deep-inelastic collisions between 16O nuclei have been investigated by implementing the Balian-Veneroni variational technique based upon a three-dimensional time-dependent Hartree-Fock code with realistic Skyrme interactions. The mass distributions obtained have been shown to be significantly larger than the standard TDHF results.