Fission dynamics from saddle-to-scission, and even beyond, is a non-equilibrium quantum process and its description within a fully quantum many-body framework has been a formidable problem to find its solution in theoretical physics for more than 8 decades now. Within the Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) extended to superfluid fermion systems, which is a mathematically...
Recent experiments have provided strong evidence that the angular momentum of fission fragments follows a sawtooth pattern as a function of their mass. Reproducing this behavior without fitting it explicitly requires microscopic models capable of describing the physics of scission without adjustable parameters. Using the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory and symmetry restoration techniques, we...
