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The location of the neutron drip line, currently known for only the lightest elements, remains a fundamental question in nuclear physics. Its description is a challenge for microscopic nuclear energy density functionals, as it must take…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Eun Jin In , Youngman Kim , Panagiota Papakonstantinou , Seung-Woo Hong

It is known that nuclear deformation plays an important role in inducing the halo structure in neutron-rich nuclei by mixing several angular momentum components. While previous theoretical studies on this problem in the literature assume…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 K. Uzawa , K. Hagino , K. Yoshida

The nuclear charge radius provides a fundamental probe of nuclear structure, yet experimental data remain rare in the actinide region. Using the deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum (DRHBc) with the PC-PK1…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-10 Ting-Ting Sun , Qi Zhang , Peng Wang , Zi-Dan Huang , Shuang-Quan Zhang

Most nuclei are deformed, and these deformations play an important role in various nuclear and astrophysical phenomena. Microscopic nuclear mass models have been developed based on covariant density functional theory to explore exotic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-02 Soonchul Choi , Kyungil Kim , Zhenyu He , Youngman Kim , Toshitaka Kajino

Ground-state properties of deformed proton-rich odd-Z nuclei in the region $59 \leq Z \leq 69$ are described in the framework of Relativistic Hartree Bogoliubov (RHB) theory. One-proton separation energies and ground-state quadrupole…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Vretenar , G. A. Lalazissis , P. Ring

The Relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov model for axially deformed nuclei (RHFBz) is introduced. The model is based on an effective Lagrangian with density-dependent meson-nucleon couplings in the particle-hole channel, and the pairing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-02 J. -P. Ebran , E. Khan , D. Pena Arteaga , D. Vretenar

We present an ab initio study of the one-neutron halo nucleus $^{11}$Be using nuclear lattice effective field theory with high-fidelity chiral interactions at N3LO. By employing the wavefunction matching method to mitigate the sign problem…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-12 Shihang Shen , Serdar Elhatisari , Dean Lee , Ulf-G. Meißner , Zhengxue Ren

The shape of a nucleus is one of fundamental nuclear properties. We perform a systematic investigation of bubble nuclei that also exhibit shape coexistence in Hf, W, Os, Pt and Hg even-even isotopes using the deformed relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Yong-Beom Choi , Chang-Hwan Lee , Myeong-Hwan Mun , Youngman Kim

We present a systematic study on the structural properties of odd-$Z$ superheavy nuclei with proton numbers $Z=117, 119$, and neutron numbers $N$ increasing from $N=170$ to the neutron dripline within the framework of axially deformed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-07 Y. X. Zhang , B. R. Liu , K. Y. Zhang , J. M. Yao

The cranked relativistic Hartree+Bogoliubov theory has been applied for a systematic study of the nuclei around 254No, the heaviest elements for which detailed spectroscopic data are available. The deformation, rotational response, pairing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Afanasjev , T. L. Khoo , S. Frauendorf , G. A. Lalazissis , I. Ahmad

Halo nuclei are characterized by a few weakly bound halo nucleons and a more tightly bound core. This separation of scales can be exploited in a few-body description of halo nuclei, since the detailed structure of the core is not resolved…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-03 H. -W. Hammer

The analysis method proposed in Ref. \cite{rotival07a} is applied to characterize halo properties in finite many-fermion systems. First, the versatility of the method is highlighted by applying it to light and medium-mass nuclei as well as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 V. Rotival , K. Bennaceur , T. Duguet

The influence of pairing correlations on the nuclear size and in particular on the formation of nuclear halos is studied in the framework of relativistic continuum Hartree-Bogoliubov (RCHB) theory. It turns out that the contributions from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-08-09 Ying Chen , Peter Ring , Jie Meng

We have investigated the ground-state structures of even-even neutron-deficient isotopes of Hg and Pb nuclei within the framework of a deformed relativistic mean field formalism for a number of commonly used parameter sets, namely NL1, NL3,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Mehta , T. K. Jha , S. K. Patra , Raj K. Gupta

The inelastic scattering of electrons on weakly-bound nuclei is studied with a simple model based on the long range behavior of the bound state wavefunction and on the effective-range expansion for the continuum wavefunctions. Three…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 C. A. Bertulani

The neutron-rich 6He and 8He isotopes exhibit an exotic nuclear structure that consists of a tightly bound 4He-like core with additional neutrons orbiting at a relatively large distance, forming a halo. Recent experimental efforts have…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-16 Z. -T. Lu , P. Mueller , G. W. F. Drake , W. Noertershaeuser , Steven C. Pieper , Z. -C. Yan

Nucleons are known to form pairing correlations with various types of spin-symmetries. Spin-singlet neutron-neutron and proton-proton pairing is abundant in the nuclear chart but spin-triplet and mixed-spin proton-neutron pairing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-29 G. Palkanoglou , A. Gezerlis

Nuclear masses of exotic nuclei are important for both nuclear physics and astrophysics. The deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum (DRHBc) is capable of providing proper descriptions for exotic nuclei by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 C. Pan , Y. C. Yang , X. F. Jiang , X. H. Wu

Within the relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (RHFB) theory, the structure properties of Carbon isotopes are systematically studied. In order to reproduce the experiment data, we take the finite-range Gogny D1S with a strength factor $f$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-24 Xiao Li Lu , Bao Yuan Sun , Wen Hui Long