# 2017 JINA-CEE Frontiers in Nuclear Astrophysics

Feb 7 – 9, 2017
US/Eastern timezone

## Impact of fission in the r-process nucleosynthesis: an energy density functional study

Feb 9, 2017, 9:45 AM
15m

111 N Grand Ave, Lansing, MI 48933
Talk [Main Conference] Contributed talk

### Speaker

Mr Samuel Andrea Giuliani (Tu Darmstadt)

### Description

We computed the fission properties of nuclei in the range $84 \le Z \le 120$ and $118 \le N \le 250$ using the Barcelona-Catania-Paris-Madrid (BCPM) Energy Density Functional (EDF). For the first time a set of spontaneous and neutron-induced fission rates were obtained from a microscopic calculation of nuclear collective inertias. These fission rates were used as a nuclear input in the estimation of nucleosynthesis yields on neutron star mergers. We founded that the increased stability against the fission process predicted by BCPM allows the formation of nuclei up to $A=286$. This constitutes a first step in a systematic exploration of different sets of fission rates on r-process abundance predictions.

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