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The nuclear binding energies for 28 nuclei including several isotopic chains with masses ranging from A=64 to A=226 were evaluated using the Skyrme effective nucleon-nucleon interaction and the Extended Thomas-Fermi approximation. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Dobrowolski , K. Pomorski , J. Bartel

We offer a possibility that the nuclear system with protons, Z = 8 has a large deformation at neutrons, N = 20; 28O that is beyond the neutron drip line. According to our previous works [arXiv: 1604.05013, 1604.02786, 1604.01017], it is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-03 Chang-Bum Moon

The nucleon separation energies and shell gaps in nuclei over the whole nuclear chart are systematically studied with eight global nuclear mass models. For unmeasured neutron-rich and super-heavy regions, the uncertainty of the predictions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Qiuhong Mo , Min Liu , Ning Wang

Transitions of nuclear compositions in the crust of a neutron star induced by stellar spin-down are evaluated at zero temperature. We construct a compressible liquid-drop model for the energy of nuclei immersed in a neutron gas, including…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kei Iida , Katsuhiko Sato

We investigate the nature and impact of shell effects on nuclear level density (NLD) and particle emission probability as a function of temperature in a microscopic theoretical framework of Statistical Model for nuclei ranging from neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-03 Mamta Aggarwal

A systematic study of the ground state properties of the entire chains of even even neutron magic nuclei represented by isotones of traditional neutron magic numbers N = 8, 20, 40, 50, 82 and 126 has been carried out using relativistic mean…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 G. Saxena , M. Kaushik

Using a relativistic mean field formalism, we analyzed the magic number sequence for finite nuclei in the superheavy valley. The result for the IOPB-I parameter set is compared with the well-known NL3 force. The magic numbers obtained from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-31 Jeet Amrit Pattnaik , Santosh Kumar , S. K. Singh , R. N. Panda , M. Bhuyan , S. K. Patra

The existence of bubble nuclei identified by the central depletion in nucleonic density is studied for the conventional magic N (Z) $=$ 8, 20, 28, 40, 50, 82, 126 isotones (isotopes) and recently speculated magic N $=$ 164, 184, 228…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 G. Saxena , M. Kumawat , M. Kaushik , S. K. Jain , Mamta Aggarwal

The effect of an axially symmetric hexadecapole term is investigated in a strongly deformed quadrupole potential. While the system is nonintegrable and shows significant chaotic behaviour classically, the quantum mechanical treatment not…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Dieter Heiss , Rashid G. Nazmitdinov , Stefanel Radu

An extended version of the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics to study structure of $p$-$sd$ shell hypernuclei is developed. By using an effective $\Lambda N$ interaction, we investigate energy curves of $^9_\Lambda$Be, $^{13}_\Lambda$C and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-13 Masahiro Isaka , Masaaki Kimura , Akinobu Dote , Akira Ohnishi

Nuclear structures of the atomic nuclei can be theoretically investigated by using nuclear shell model. Generally, a doubly closed-shell nucleus has been considered as inert core and the nucleons outside the core are taken into account in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-14 Serkan Akkoyun , Tuncay Bayram

The nuclear shell structure, which originates in the nearly independent motion of nucleons in an average potential, provides an important guide for our understanding of nuclear structure and the underlying nuclear forces. Its most…

The structure of low-lying states of $N=50$ nuclei is investigated by the advanced Monte Carlo shell model (MCSM) in the $\pi{(fp)}$-$\nu{(sdg)}$ model space. We have employed the shell-model Hamiltonian based on the valence-space in-medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Anil Kumar , Noritaka Shimizu , Takayuki Miyagi , Yusuke Tsunoda , Yutaka Utsuno

In nuclear physics a magic number is defined as the nucleon number, which is separated by a significantly large single-particle energy gap from the next nucleon. Magic numbers define the nuclear shells, which are considered to be active,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Andriana Martinou , Dennis Bonatsos

Shell effects in nuclei close to the neutron-drip lines have been investigated. It has been demonstrated in the relativistic mean-field theory that nuclei very far from stability manifest the shell effects strongly. This behaviour is in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 M. M. Sharma , G. A. Lalazissis , W. Hillebrandt , P. Ring

We present coupled-cluster computations of nuclei with neutron number $N=50$ "south" of $^{78}$Ni using nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon forces from chiral effective field theory. We find an erosion of the magic number $N=50$ toward…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-13 B. S. Hu , Z. H. Sun , G. Hagen , G. R. Jansen , T. Papenbrock

The shell structure underlying shape changes in neutron-rich nuclei between N=20 and N=28 has been investigated by a novel application of the transient field technique to measure the first-excited state g factors in S-38 and S-40 produced…

The lightest superdeformed nuclei of the mass-60 region are described using the Projected Shell Model. In contrast to the heaviest superdeformed nuclei where a coherent motion of nucleons often dominates the physics, it is found that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Yang Sun , Jing-ye Zhang , Mike Guidry , Cheng-Li Wu

Magicity, or shell closure, plays an important role in our understanding of complex nuclear phenomena. In this work, we employ one of the state-of-the-art density functional theories, the deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-18 Ru-You Zheng , Xiang-Xiang Sun , Guo-fang Shen , Li-Sheng Geng

Light neutron-rich even-even nuclei, of which the ground state is oblately deformed, are looked for, examining the Nilsson diagram based on realistic Woods-Saxon potentials. One-particle energies of the Nilsson diagram are calculated by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Ikuko Hamamoto