LEPh - Dynamic pairing in nuclear fission

Context: Fundamental physics internship at LEPh (CEA Cadarache) within the civil nuclear data program. Study the role of dynamic pairing correlations in fission by introducing particle-number fluctuations as an additional dimension of the Potential Energy Surface (PES).

Work plan:

• Identify relevant HFB states including particle-number fluctuation as an extra coordinate.
• Generate new fission PESs and perform fission dynamics on them.
• Compute primary fragment charge and mass distributions for neutron-induced fission using HPC resources (CEA RT Computing Center).

Background/skills: Quantum theory/mean-field methods (HFB, GCM). Keywords: Nuclear theory; fission; superfluidity; pairing correlations.