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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.

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1 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

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

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

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12 Higher order gradient corrections

13 QMC of Neutron Matter EoS

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16 2375 nuclei (AME 2012) and 883 charge radii

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25 Dynamics

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27 Introducing single-particle wave functions

28 Isovector excited collective modes

29 Fission

30 238 U symmetric fission

31 238 U asymmetric fission

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