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Nuclear pairing is studied both in atomic nuclei and in neutron-star crusts in the unified framework of the energy-density functional theory using generalized Skyrme functionals complemented with a local pairing functional obtained from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 N. Chamel , J. M. Pearson , S. Goriely

Models based on nuclear energy density functionals can provide access to a multitude of observables for thousands of nuclei in a single framework with microscopic foundations. Such models can rival the accuracy of more phenomenological…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 Wouter Ryssens , Guillaume Scamps , S. Goriely , Michael Bender

We address the question of how to improve the agreement between theoretical nuclear single-particle energies (SPEs) and experiment. Empirically, in doubly magic nuclei, the SPEs can be deduced from spectroscopic properties of odd nuclei…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-12-24 D. Tarpanov , J. Dobaczewski , J. Toivanen , B. G. Carlsson

The density-dependent nuclear symmetry energy is directly related to the isospin asymmetry for finite and infinite nuclear systems. It is critical to determine the coefficients of symmetry energy and its related observables as it holds…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Praveen K. Yadav , Raj Kumar , M. Bhuyan

We analyse how the spatial localisation properties of pairing correlations are changing in a major neutron shell of heavy nuclei. It is shown that the radial distribution of the pairing density depends strongly on whether the chemical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Sandulescu , P. Schuck , X. Vinas

We investigate the finite-temperature evolution of microscopic free-energy corrections in nuclear fission, focusing on pairing and shell effects near scission. The analysis is based on a finite-temperature BCS treatment combined with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-28 K. Pomorski , A. Augustyn , T. Cap , Y. J. Chen , M. Kowal , M. Warda , Z. G. Xiao

An equation of state (EoS) for symmetric nuclear matter is constructed using the density dependent M3Y effective interaction and extended for isospin asymmetric nuclear matter. Theoretically obtained values of symmetric nuclear matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-04 D. N. Basu

We propose a newly optimized nonlinear point-coupling parameterized interaction, PC-L3R, for the relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov framework with a further optimized separable pairing force by fitting to observables, i.e., the binding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Zi Xin Liu , Yi Hua Lam , Ning Lu , Peter Ring

We propose a new approach for the treatment of isovector pairing in self-consistent mean field calculations which conserves exactly the isospin and the particle number in the pairing channel. The mean field is generated by a Skyrme-HF…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 D. Negrea , N. Sandulescu

The evolution of the pairing correlations from closed shell to middle shell nuclei is analyzed with a Finite Range Density Dependent interaction in the Sn isotopes. As theoretical approaches we use the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Anguiano , J. L. Egido , L. M. Robledo

The properties of pairing correlations in symmetric nuclear matter are studied in the relativistic mean field (RMF) theory with the effective interaction PK1. Considering well-known problem that the pairing gap at Fermi surface calculated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-23 Jun Li , Bao Yuan Sun , Jie Meng

The density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy is inspected using the Statistical Multifragmentation Model with Skyrme effective interactions. The model consistently considers the expansion of the fragments' volumes at finite…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-29 S. R. Souza , M. B. Tsang , B. V. Carlson , R. Donangelo , W. G. Lynch , A. W. Steiner

We study the Okamoto-Nolen-Schiffer (ONS) anomaly in the binding energy of mirror nuclei at high density by adding a single neutron or proton to a quark gluon plasma. In this high-density limit we find an anomaly equal to two-thirds of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 C. J. Horowitz , J. Piekarewicz

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 study the ${}^{1}S_0$ proton pairing gap in beta-equilibrated neutron star matter within the framework of chiral effective field theory. We focus on the role of three-body forces, which strongly modify the effective proton-proton…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-03 Yeunhwan Lim , Jeremy W. Holt

The present contribution reports the first systematic finite-nucleus calculations performed using the Energy Density Functional method and a non-empirical pairing functional derived from low-momentum interactions. As a first step, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Duguet , T. Lesinski

The mass-dependent symmetry energy coefficients $a_{sym}(A)$ has been extracted by analysing the heavy nuclear mass differences reducing the uncertainties as far as possible in our previous work. Taking advantage of the obtained symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-08 Xiaohua Fan , Jianmin Dong , Wei Zuo

The recently observed abnormal bifurcation of the double binding energy differences $\delta V_{pn}$ between the odd-odd and even-even nuclei along the $N=Z$ line from Ni to Rb has challenged the nuclear theories. To solve this problem, a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-06 Y. P. Wang , Y. K. Wang , F. F. Xu , P. W. Zhao , J. Meng

Recent analysis of the isospin diffusion data from heavy-ion collisions based on an isospin- and momentum-dependent transport model with in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross sections has led to the extraction of a value of $L=88\pm 25$ MeV for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Bao-An Li

Large scale Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) calculations with the finite-range Gogny force D1S have been performed in order to extract the corresponding theoretical average mass dependence of the nuclear gap values. Good agreement with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 S. Hilaire , J. -F. Berger , M. Girod , W. Satula , P. Schuck