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The nuclear magnetic moment is an important physical observable and serves as a useful tool for the stringent test of nuclear models. For the past decades, the covariant density functional theory and its extension have been proved to be…

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The quasi-fission mechanism hinders fusion of heavy systems because of a mass flow between the reactants, leading to a re-separation of more symmetric fragments in the exit channel. A good understanding of the competition between fusion and…

The impact of beyond mean field effects on the ground state and fission properties of superheavy nuclei has been investigated in a five-dimensional collective Hamiltonian based on covariant density functional theory. The inclusion of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-17 Z. Shi , A. V. Afanasjev , Z. P. Li , J. Meng

Nuclear fission represents the ultimate test for microscopic theories of nuclear structure and reactions. Fission is a large-amplitude, time-dependent phenomenon taking place in a self-bound, strongly-interacting many-body system. It…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-29 Nicolas Schunck

Quantum shell effects drive many aspects of many-body quantal systems and their interactions. Among these are the quasifission reactions that impede the formation of a compound nucleus in superheavy element (SHE) searches. Fragment…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Liang Li , Lu Guo , K. Godbey , A. S. Umar

A systematic study of fission-barrier dependence on excitation energy has been performed using the self-consistent finite-temperature Hartree-Fock+BCS (FT-HF+BCS) formalism with the SkM* Skyrme energy density functional. The calculations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-18 J. A. Sheikh , W. Nazarewicz , J. C. Pei

The role of three-nucleon forces (3NF) in the description of nuclear structure properties is nowadays a main topic in the field of microscopic many-nucleon calculations. We investigate the relative weight between effective two- and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-02 L. Coraggio , A. Gargano , N. Itaco

To synthesize superheavy element 119 is becoming highly concerned as several experimental projects in major laboratories are being pursued. This work studied the survival probabilities of compound superheavy nuclei after multiple neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-15 Yu Qiang , Xiang-Quan Deng , Yue Shi , C. Y. Qiao , Junchen Pei

We employ a statistical approach to investigate the influence of axial asymmetry on the nuclear level density and entropy along the fission pathways of a superheavy nucleus, explicitly focusing on the $^{296}$Lv isotope. These pathways are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-12 A. Rahmatinejad , T. M. Shneidman , G. G. Adamian , N. V. Antonenko , P. Jachimowicz , M. Kowal

We investigate meson's spectrum, decay constant and form factor in a nuclear medium through holographic two- and three-point correlation functions. To describe a nuclear medium composed of protons and neutrons, we consider a hard wall model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-03 Chanyong Park

Lifetimes of super-heavy (SH) nuclei are primarily governed by alpha decay and spontaneous fission (SF). Here we study the competing decay modes of even-even SH isotopes with 108 <= Z <= 126 and 148 <= N <= 188 using the state-of-the-art…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Staszczak , A. Baran , W. Nazarewicz

The systematic investigation of the ground state and fission properties of even-even actinides and superheavy nuclei with $Z=90-120$ from the two-proton up to two-neutron drip lines with proper assessment of systematic theoretical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-09 A. Taninah , S. E. Agbemava , A. V. Afanasjev

Quantal diffusion mechanism of nucleon exchange is studied in the central collisions of several symmetric heavy-ion collisions in the framework of the Stochastic Mean-Field (SMF) approach. Since at bombarding energies below the fusion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 S. Ayik , O. Yilmaz , B. Yilmaz , A. S. Umar

The neutron and proton drip lines represent the limits of the nuclear landscape. While the proton drip line is measured experimentally up to rather high $Z$-values, the location of the neutron drip line for absolute majority of elements is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 A. V. Afanasjev , S. E. Abgemava , D. Ray , P. Ring

Nuclear structure models built from phenomenological mean fields, the effective nucleon-nucleon interactions (or Lagrangians), and the realistic bare nucleon-nucleon interactions are reviewed. The success of covariant density functional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-14 Shihang Shen , Haozhao Liang , Wen Hui Long , Jie Meng , Peter Ring

Reliable predictions of nuclear properties are needed as much to answer fundamental science questions as in applications such as reactor physics or data evaluation. Nuclear density functional theory is currently the only microscopic, global…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-23 N. Schunck , J. D. McDonnell , D. Higdon , J. Sarich , S. Wild

A microscopic framework of nuclear energy density functionals is reviewed, which establishes a direct relation between low-energy QCD and nuclear structure, synthesizing effective field theory methods and principles of density functional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Dario Vretenar

A nuclear density functional can be used to find the binding energy and shell structure of nuclei and the energy gap in superconducting nuclear matter. In this paper, we study the possible application of a nuclear density functional theory…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-08 Yeunhwan Lim

Non-uniform structures of nuclear matter are studied in a wide density-range. Using the density functional theory with a relativistic mean-field model, we examine non-uniform structures at sub-nuclear densities (nuclear ``pastas'') and at…

We describe the fission dynamics of $^{240}$Pu within an implementation of the Density Functional Theory (DFT) extended to superfluid systems and real-time dynamics. We demonstrate the critical role played by the pairing correlations, which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-29 Aurel Bulgac , Shi Jin , Piotr Magierski , Kenneth J. Roche , Ionel Stetcu