Quantum Approach to One-body Dissipation

The nuclear dissipation, i.e. the conversion of collective energy into intrinsic energy is investigated in the frame of quantum mechanics. Using appropiate numerical procedures, we follow the motion of individual nucleons according to the time-dependent Schr̈odinger equation with time-dependent potential. In particular we study the transition from the saddle to the scission point during the low energy fission of 236U. Different rates T of change of the nuclear shape along this path were considered. The overlap integrals between the static solutions of the bi-dimensional Schr̈odinger equation and the time-dependent wave packets yield the transition probabilities and hence the singleparticle excitations during the saddle-to-scission descent. Using the numerical solutions other relevant pre-scission properties have been evaluated as well.