13-23 May 2014
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, INDIA

Course contents:

  • Basics on nuclear fission (Liquid drop model, fission barrier and Strutinsky shell correction)

  • Nuclear reactions with heavy ions at low and intermediate energies

  • Fusion near barrier 

  • Coupled channel calculation

  • Fission hindrance 

  • Stochastic dynamical models of fission

  • IMF emission at low energy nucleus nucleus collision

  • Quasi-fission: models and theory

  • Fission fragment angular, mass and energy distribution 

  • Super Heavy Elements: production and structure features.

  • Multi fragmentation

  • Experimental techniques and measurements of fission barrier, fragment mass and energy

  • Neutron as a probe to study fission dynamics

  • Fission related phenomena: (e.g; Giant Dipole Resonance)