CURRENT STATUS, RESULTS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN THE FRDM/FRLDM FOR NUCLEAR GROUND-STATE AND FISSION PROPERTIES. by Prof. Peter Möller (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA)

Wednesday 27 Jan 2016, 15:00 → 16:30 Asia/Tokyo

Room 201, RIBF (RIKEN Wako)

============================================================= Date & Time: Jan. 27th (Wed.) 15:00 - Place: Riin #201 changed !! Speaker: Prof. Peter Möller (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA) Title: CURRENT STATUS, RESULTS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN THE FRDM/FRLDM FOR NUCLEAR GROUND-STATE AND FISSION PROPERTIES. * The talk will be given in English. * ============================================================= Abstract: I have previously, during many visits to RIKEN in the past decade, discussed some of the successive developments that have led to the FRDM (2012) mass model. These developments include studies of shape coexistence, octupole and axial-asymmetry effects on the nuclear ground state, and symmetry energies. We have used the calculated data bases in r-process studies, in how weak processes affect heating and cooling in neutron star crusts, and in studies of super-heavy element properties. I will highlight some of these developments and outline current focus areas which are mainly fission studies. I will very briefly discuss other mass models and in particular emphasize that "rms deviations" is not the sole criterion to characterize models. It is useful to test models and try to "fail" them. I will suggest some experiments to try to accomplish this in the case of the FRDM model. (I will try to discuss beta-decay in a later seminar)