Nuclear Theory
Jet quenching provides a valuable measure of the opacity of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. However, substantial suppression of charged hadron spectra is observed in highly peripheral collisions,…
Proton-boron-11 (p-$^{11}$B) fusion is a highly attractive aneutronic pathway for clean energy production, offering abundant fuel, negligible neutron activation, and the potential for direct energy conversion of charged $\alpha$ particles.…
We develop theoretical diagnostics for the breakdown of mean-field theory, demonstrate how spatial structure and finite interaction ranges enter the effective description, and show how these scales qualitatively modify the…
We study the observable $v_0(p_T)$, which quantifies the relative change of $p_T$ spectra induced by event-by-event density fluctuations in the medium created in heavy-ion collisions. This quantity provides a direct measure of radial flow…
Quarkonium production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions remains a key probe of the quark-gluon plasma formed in these reactions, but the development of a fully integrated nonperturbative approach remains a challenge. Toward this end, we…
The quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram at large densities and low temperatures can be probed using both neutron stars and low-energy heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-ion collisions are nearly isospin-symmetric systems, whereas neutron…
Sub-barrier photo-induced fission in $^{236}$U$(\gamma,f)$ is investigated within the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) method. A model space for the fission process is constructed by superposing Skyrme-Hartree-Fock wave functions along…
The impact of Coulomb core polarization on the neutron density distribution of $^{48}\mathrm{Ca}$ is investigated, revealing that Coulomb-driven proton shifts toward the nuclear surface lead to neutron skin impurity, defined as the presence…
Accurate determination of nuclear fission barrier heights is essential for understanding nuclear stability, fission dynamics, and nucleosynthesis. However, theoretical models such as the Extended Thomas-Fermi plus Strutinsky Integral…
We investigate the interaction dependence of the liquid-gas critical point of symmetric nuclear matter in finite-temperature lattice effective field theory. Building on the pinhole-trace algorithm, we benchmark a first-order perturbative…
In this work, we investigate how short-range correlations affect relativistic hadronic models at high densities, with direct consequences for the structure of neutron stars, both with and without dark matter content. Two versions of the…
Recent experiments have shown that the mean transverse momentum $\langle p_T\rangle$ of outgoing particles increases as a function of the particle multiplicity in ultracentral nucleus-nucleus collisions at collider energies. This increase…
The photon radiation induced by rescattering in a magnetized medium is investigated in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Within the high-energy limit, the photon emission rate and the associated electromagnetic energy loss are derived…
Utilizing a partitioning method based on equal (or unequal) probabilities -- without incorporating the alpha-cluster ($\alpha$-cluster) model -- allows for the derivation of diverse topological configurations of nuclear fragments resulting…
We propose an enhanced machine learning method to calculate the ground state of two-body systems. By extending the original method [Naito, Naito, and Hashimoto, Phys. Rev. Research 5, 033189 (2023)], the present method enables consideration…
We study the production of $^3_\Lambda$H and $^4_\Lambda$H in the $^{3,4}$He($K^-$,$\pi^0$) reactions at $p_{K^-}=1.0$~GeV/$c$ within the distorted-wave impulse approximation, using the optimal Fermi-averaged $K^-p\to\pi^0\Lambda$…
The quasielastic cross-sections of charged-current neutrino and antineutrino scattering on $^{12}$C are calculated using the coherent density fluctuation model with a relativistic effective mass $m_N^* =0.8 m_N$ (CDFM$_{M^*}$). The model…
The kink observed in the nuclear charge radius of Sn isotopes around neutron number $N = 82$ is investigated within the relativistic mean-field (RMF) framework using the NL3$^*$ parameter set. It is shown that the small components of the…
We explore unsolved nuclear structure problems related with the spin and isospin degree of freedom by using microscopic models which accommodate realistic isoscalar and isovector pairing interactions, and also tensor correlations. For the…
We study the spatiotemporal patterns of density fluctuations in $^{16,24}$O and $^{48}$Ca using nuclear interactions from chiral effective field theory and the time-dependent coupled-cluster method. We find that two-particle-two-hole…