Neck Rupture in Fission (IMAGE)
Caption
Researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle, and Los Alamos National Laboratory used the Summit supercomputer to conduct the first fully microscopic, quantum many-body simulation of a nucleus’s "neck rupture" as it undergoes fission. The left/right columns show a time series of the neutron/proton number densities in log scale for a typical fission trajectory. The bar relates the color to the decimal logarithm of the number density.
Credit
Image: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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