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Normal parity bands are studied in 157Gd, 163Dy and 169Tm using the pseudo SU(3) shell model. Energies and B(E2) transition strengths of states belonging to six low-lying rotational bands with the same parity in each nuclei are presented.…
Recent advances in experiments have enabled the measurement of $\gamma$-decay from giant and pygmy resonances to low-lying states, establishing this technique as a unique probe for nuclear structure. However, a microscopic description of…
The model of a nuclear molecule that composed of two heavy nuclei is proposed. To this aim the Hamiltonian of a dinuclear system is derived and diagonalized in the basis of bipolar spherical functions. Analytical expressions, describing…
Electromagnetic transitions from deformed structures based on $\alpha$ configurations or on heavier clusters are discussed, drawing the link between multiparticle-multihole excited bands and cluster structures. Enhanced E2 and E1…
A model for determining the hyperfine structure of the excited electronic states of diatomic bialkali heteronuclear molecules is formulated from the atomic hyperfine interactions, and is applied to the case of bosonic $^{39}$KCs and…
The coherent state model (CSM) and the triaxial rotation-vibration model (TRVM) are alternatively used to describe the ground, gamma and beta bands of 228Th. CSM is also applied to the nuclei 126Xe and 130Ba, which were recently considered…
We have studied the ground state of the two-dimensional (2D) Hubbard model by using a quantum monte method paying special attention to the shell structure effect on finite size clusters. Our calculations show there is a gap for spin…
The quantum chemistry community has developed analytic forces for approximate electronic excited states to enable walking on excited state potential energy surfaces (PES). One can thereby computationally characterize excited state minima…
The structure of collective states and quasi-particle excitations in $^{68}$Se is analyzed by using the projected shell model. It is found that the $g_{9/2}$ orbitals play a decisive role for the structure of this nucleus. At the prolate…
Near-threshold collectivization of continuum shell model eigenstates is investigated in $^{20}$O on the example of B(E$\lambda$) decays of 4$^+$ states in the vicinity of elastic and inelastic neutron threshold. Changes of the…
We consider the potential benefits of searching for supersymmetric dark-matter through its inelastic excitation, via the "scalar current", of low-lying collective nuclear states in a detector. If such states live long enough so that the…
Results of nuclear resonance fluorescence experiments on $^{117}$Sn are reported. More than 50 $\gamma$ transitions with $E_{\gamma} < 4$ MeV were detected indicating a strong fragmentation of the electromagnetic excitation strength. For…
High-energy nuclear collisions have opened a new experimental method to reveal collective behavior in nuclear ground states through the lens of many-body correlations of nucleons. Using ab initio lattice and variational calculations of…
Medium-spin excited states of the neutron-rich nucleus $^{87}$Br were observed and studied for the first time. They were populated in fission of $^{235}$U induced by the cold-neutron beam of the PF1B facility of the Institut Laue-Langevin,…
The structure of exotic nuclei provides valuable tests for state-of-the-art nuclear theory. In particular electromagnetic transition rates are more sensitive to aspects of nuclear forces and many-body physics than excitation energies alone.…
We predict a molecular vibrational state in the cold binary fission of $^{252}$Cf using a simple decay cluster model. The Hamiltonian of two even-even fragments in the pole-pole configuration is built in the same fashion as that for the…
Fusion - fission probabilities in the synthesis of heaviest elements are discussed in the context of the latest experimental reports. Cross sections for superheavy nuclei are evaluated using "Fusion by Diffusion" (FBD) model. Predictive…
We investigate the stability and softness of nuclei against quadrupole, octupole, and hexadecapole deformation. By applying the spherical Skyrme-force Hartree-Fock Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer quasi-particle random phase approximation, we…
The commissioning of new sources of monochromatic $\gamma$-quanta will allow obtaining a large amount of new data on low-lying collective states of negative parity of even-even nuclei. The purpose of this work is to derive relations between…
A new version of random phase approximation is proposed for low-energy harmonic vibrations in nuclei. The theory is not based on the quasi-particle vacuum of the BCS/HFB ground state, but on the pair condensate determined in Ref. [4]. The…