The Nuclear Energy Density Functional: What do we really know? Aurel Bulgac University of Washington, Seattle Collaborators: Michael McNeil Forbes - Washington.

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The Nuclear Energy Density Functional: What do we really know? Aurel Bulgac University of Washington, Seattle Collaborators: Michael McNeil Forbes - Washington State University and UW Shi Jin – University of Washington

The most prominent formula in nuclear physics: Bethe-Weizsäcker mass formula (1936)

Single-particle density of states in a many-fermion system

Higher order gradient corrections

QMC of Neutron Matter EoS

2375 nuclei (AME 2012) and 883 charge radii

Dynamics

Introducing single-particle wave functions

Isovector excited collective modes

Fission

238 U symmetric fission

238 U asymmetric fission

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