Atomic Energy Society of Japan

A complete microscopic theory based on quantum many-body problem is still lacking. In those microscopic theories which try to describe nuclear fission, it is very difficult to deal with the generation and distribution of spins and relative orbital angular momenta of fragments. Recently, there appear papers about the experimental results on spins of fission fragments in Nature journal as well as theoretical attempts based on density functional theory. We use Antisymmetrized molecular dynamics to simulate scission of ²⁵²Cf and calculate the spin and relative orbital angular momenta including their correlations.