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Surfaces of experimental masses of even-even and odd-odd nuclei exhibit a sharp slope discontinuity at N=Z. This cusp (Wigner energy), reflecting an additional binding in nuclei with neutrons and protons occupying the same shell model…

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We have performed shell-model calculations for the nucleus $^{137}$Xe, which was recently studied experimentally using the $^{136}$Xe($d,p$) reaction in inverse kinematics. The main aim of our study has been to investigate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 L. Coraggio , A. Covello , A. Gargano , N. Itaco

Pairing interactions with various density dependencies (surface/volume mixing) are constrained with the two-neutron separation energy in the Tin isotopic chain. The response associated with pairing vibrations in very neutron-rich nuclei is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Elias Khan , Marcella Grasso , Jerome Margueron

We report on the development of a new shell-model Monte Carlo algorithm which uses the proton-neutron formalism. Shell model Monte Carlo methods, within the isospin formulation, have been successfully used in large-scale shell-model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 C. Ozen , D. J. Dean

The properties of $T=1/2$ mirror nuclei in the $fp$ shell have been studied with a microscopic residual interaction. The isospin-nonconserving interaction is derived from a high-precision charge-dependent Bonn \textit{NN} potential using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-24 C. Qi , F. R. Xu

The structure and density dependence of the pairing gap in infinite matter is relevant for astrophysical phenomena and provides a starting point for the discussion of pairing properties in nuclear structure. Short-range correlations can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-10-27 A. Rios , A. Polls , W. H. Dickhoff

This paper refers to an another attempt to search for spherical double shell closure nu- clei beyond Z=82, N=126. All calculations and results are based on a newly developed approach entitled as simple effective interaction. Our results…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-03-18 S. K. Biswal , M. Bhuyan , S. K. Singh , S. K. Patra

The appearance and disappearance of shells and subshells are determined using a previously introduced method of structural analysis. This work extends the approach and applies it to protons, in addition to neutrons, in an attempt to provide…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-28 I. Bentley , Y. Colon Rodrıguez , S. Cunningham , A. Aprahamian

Quantum stabilization of superheavy elements is quantified in terms of the shell-correction energy. We compute the shell correction using self-consistent nuclear models: the non-relativistic Skyrme-Hartree-Fock approach and the relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Bender , W. Nazarewicz , P. -G. Reinhard

The relativistic mean field theory in combination with the analytic continuation in the coupling constant method is used to determine the energies and widths of single-particle resonant states in Sn isotopes. It is shown that there exists…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Jian You Guo , Xiang Zheng Fang

We investigated the evolution of shell structure at $N=32$ and 34 in neutron-rich nuclei beyond the stability line using realistic nuclear forces, employing the state-of-the-art valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-06 Subhrajit Sahoo , Praveen C. Srivastava

We present an approach to derive effective shell-model interactions from microscopic nuclear forces. The similarity-transformed coupled-cluster Hamiltonian decouples the single-reference state of a closed-shell nucleus and provides us with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Z. H. Sun , T. D. Morris , G. Hagen , G. R. Jansen , T. Papenbrock

We have studied p-shell nuclei using a two-frequency shell-model approach with an effective interaction derived from the Bonn-A nucleon-nucleon potential by means of a G-matrix folded-diagram method. First, we briefly describe our…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 A. Gargano , L. Coraggio , A. Covello , N. Itaco , T. T. S. Kuo

The binding energies and proton separation energies of nuclides with $Z, N = 30-50$ are investigated, based on the shell model with an uncertainty analysis through statistical methods. Several formulas are used to obtain the binding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-06 Boshuai Cai , Guangshang Chen , Cenxi Yuan , Jianjun He

For natural parity states of several odd-A nuclei a comparison of shell model calculations in the full pf configuration space with the Nilsson diagram and particle-rotor predictions shows that prolate strong coupling applies at low…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 F. Brandolini , C. A. Ur

Isospin singlet (pn) pairing as well as quartetting in nuclei is expected to arise near the symmetry line $N=Z$. Empirical values can be deduced from the nuclear binding energies applying special filters. Within the local density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Roepke , A. Schnell , P. Schuck , U. Lombardo

Approximations made to estimate two-nucleon transfer probabilities in ground-state to ground-state transitions and physical interpretation of these probabilities are discussed. Probabilities are often calculated by approximating both ground…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Grasso , D. Lacroix , A. Vitturi

Thermal behavior of isoscalar and isovector proton-neutron (pn) pairing energies at finite temperature are investigated by the shell model calculations. These pn pairing energies can be estimated by double differences of "thermal" energies…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Kaneko , M. Hasegawa

Two variational quartet models previously employed in a treatment of pairing forces are extended to the case of a general two-body interaction. One model approximates the nuclear states as a condensate of identical quartets with angular…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 M. Sambataro , N. Sandulescu

Full shell-model diagonalization has been performed to study the structure of neutron-rich nuclei around $^{20}$C. We investigate in detail the roles played by the different monopole components of the effective interaction in the evolution…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-09-26 Cenxi Yuan , Chong Qi , Furong Xu