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In spite of the success of the Bethe-Weizs\"acker mass formula in its modern numerical and predictive implementations, the common-knowledge principle that it is electrostatics which, ultimately, favors neutron-rich nuclei still presents…

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We investigate the high-temperature effect on the nuclear matter that consists of mixture of nucleons and all nuclei in the dense and hot stellar environment. The individual nuclei are described within the compressible liquid-drop model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-07 Shun Furusawa , Igor Mishustin

The momentum and isospin dependence of the in-medium nucleon mass are studied. Two definitions of the effective mass, i.e. the Dirac mass $m^*_D$ and the nonrelativistic mass $m^*_{NR}$ which parameterizes the energy spectrum, are compared.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 E. N. E. van Dalen , C. Fuchs , Amand Faessler

The structural evolution of the heavy nuclei, with Z > 82, is investigated by looking at the differential variation of the two-neutron separation energies. It indicates, by non-monotonous behavior at certain neutron numbers, structure…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Bucurescu , N. V. Zamfir

Nuclear masses are predicted with the Bayesian neural networks by learning the mass surface of even-even nuclei and the correlation energies to their neighbouring nuclei. By keeping the known physics in various sophisticated mass models and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Z. M. Niu , H. Z. Liang

An experimentally constrained equation of state of neutron-rich matter is fundamental for the physics of nuclei and the astrophysics of neutron stars, mergers, core-collapse supernova explosions and the synthesis of heavy elements. To this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-03 T. Aumann , C. A. Bertulani , F. Schindler , S. Typel

Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales ranging from hundreds of MeV in binding energies to fractions of an MeV for low-lying collective excitations. As the limits of nuclear binding is approached near the neutron- and proton…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-20 Z. H. Sun , A. Ekström , C. Forssén , G. Hagen , G. R. Jansen , T. Papenbrock

Various kinds of isovector nucleon effective masses are used in the literature to characterize the momentum/energy dependence of the nucleon symmetry potential or self-energy due to the space/time non-locality of the underlying isovector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-21 Bao-An Li , Bao-Jun Cai , Lie-Wen Chen , Jun Xu

In this review, we describe the experimental facilities and methods which make it possible to produce and measure the properties of the extreme neutron rich nuclei. We then develop the theoretical framework that will accompany us along the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-11 Frédéric Nowacki , Alexandre Obertelli , Alfredo Poves

We compute the binding energies, radii, and densities for selected medium-mass nuclei within coupled-cluster theory and employ the "bare" chiral nucleon-nucleon interaction at order N3LO. We find rather well-converged results in model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Hagen , T. Papenbrock , D. J. Dean , M. Hjorth-Jensen

Several topics concerning nuclear structure and electromagnetic interactions of heavy nuclei are reviewed. These comprehend the deformed single-particle shell model, nuclear collective motion, symmetry breaking and approximate symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-12 Alejandro Restrepo-Giraldo

We report on a study of neutron-rich nuclei around 132Sn in terms of the shell model employing a realistic effective interaction derived from the CD-Bonn nucleon-nucleon potential. We present results for some Sb and Te isotopes. Comparison…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 A. Covello , L. Coraggio , A. Gargano , N. Itaco

A semiempirical shell model mass equation applicable to superheavy elements up to Z = 126 is presented and shown to have a high predictive power. The equation is applied to the recently discovered superheavy nuclei Z = 118, A = 293 and Z =…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-13 S. Liran , A. Marinov , N. Zeldes

Nuclear masses are one of the key ingredients of nuclear physics that go into astrophysical simulations of the $r$ process. Nuclear masses effect $r$-process abundances by entering into calculations of Q-values, neutron capture rates,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-17 M. Mumpower , R. Surman , M. Beard , D. -L. Fang , A. Aprahamian

Mass distributions of fission fragments arising from the slow quasi-fission process have been derived by comparing the measured distributions with the theoretical distributions based on compound nuclear fission model for several reactions.…

The neutron-proton mass difference in finite nuclei is studied in the framework of a medium-modified Skyrme model. The possible interplay between the effective nucleon mass in finite nuclei and the Nolen-Schiffer anomaly is discussed. In…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ulf-G. Meißner , A. M. Rakhimov , A. Wirzba , U. T. Yakhshiev

The fragment yield ratios were investigated in the fission of 238,233U targets induced by 14 MeV neutrons. The isoscaling behavior was typically observed for the isotopic chains of fragments ranging from the proton-rich to the most…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Veselsky , G. A. Souliotis , M. Jandel

To make best use of multi-faceted astronomical and nuclear data-sets, probability distributions of neutron star models that can be used to propagate errors consistently from one domain to another are required. We take steps toward a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 Lauren Balliet , William Newton , Sarah Cantu , Srdan Budimir

This manuscript reviews recent results of large scale shell model calculations on N=Z nuclei. The topics discussed include the role proton-neutron pairing on the binding energies of pf-shell nuclei and his influence on backbending rotors;…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo

The ground state bulk properties such as binding energy, root-mean-square radius, pairing energy, nuclear density distributions, and single-particle energies are calculated for the isotopic chain of Ca, Sn, Pb, and Z = 120 nuclei. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-24 Jeet Amrit Pattnaik , R. N. Panda , M. Bhuyan , S. K. Patra