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Effective field theory of the in-medium nucleon-nucleon interaction is considered. The effective range parameters are found to be of a natural scale. The low density limit is discussed both in perturbative and nonperturbative situations. In…

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A strong isoscalar dipole resonance is known to be excited in a variety of nuclei, including isospin symmetric ones, at approximately 6-7 MeV. A series of theoretical studies and accumulating experimental evidence support an interpretation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-08-06 P. Papakonstantinou

A self-consistent formalism for the double beta decay of Fermi type is provided. The particle-particle channel of the two-body interaction is considered first in the mean field equations and then in the QRPA. The resulting approach is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Raduta , P. Sarriguren , Amand Faessler , E. Moya de Guerra

A semimicroscopical approach is formulated to describe the direct nucleon decay of various giant resonances in intermediate and heavy mass spherical nuclei. The approach consists in: (i) the exact continuum-RPA calculations for amplitudes…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. A. Chekomazov , S. E. Muraviev , M. H. Urin

Pycnonuclear reactions in the compact stars at zero temperatures are studied on quantum mechanical basis in the paper. Formalism of multiple internal reflections is generalized for analysis, that was developed for nuclear decays and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Sergei P. Maydanyuk , Kostiantyn A. Shaulskyi

New experimental data on the neutron single-particle character of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance (PDR) in $^{208}$Pb are presented. They were obtained from $(d,p)$ and resonant proton scattering experiments performed at the Q3D spectrograph of…

A model is developed, based on the density functional perturbation theory and the inverse Kohn-Sham method, that can be used to improve relativistic nuclear energy density functionals towards an exact but unknown Kohn-Sham…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Giacomo Accorto , Tomoya Naito , Haozhao Liang , Tamara Niksic , Dario Vretenar

We investigate short range correlations in nuclear and hypernuclear matter. Self-energies due to short range correlations and their influence on the nucleon and $\Lambda$-hyperon spectral functions are described in an approach accounting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Konrad , H. Lenske

To further study the "pygmy" resonance phenomena in the photon strength function, we reanalyzed the two-step cascade data for the target nucleus $^{197}$Au using the Dubna group approach. The range of obtained values allows for meaningful…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-10-02 A. M. Sukhovoj , V. A. Khitrov , B. E. Crawford , S. L. Stephenson

Background: The $\gamma$ vibrational mode of excitation is an acknowledged collective mode in deformed nuclei. The collectivity depends on the details of the shell structure around the Fermi levels, in particular the presence of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 Kenichi Yoshida , Hiroshi Watanabe

In this review, we describe the potentialities offered by the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique to explore at a microscopic level new quantum states of condensed matter induced by high magnetic fields. We focus on experiments…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-30 Claude Berthier , Mladen Horvatić , Marc-Henri Julien , Hadrien Mayaffre , Steffen Krämer

We analyze the isoscalar response related to breathing modes with particular attention being paid to low-lying excitations in neutron--rich nuclei. We use the subtracted second random--phase approximation (SSRPA) to describe microscopically…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-31 D. Gambacurta , M. Grasso , O. Sorlin

We develop an approximate quasi-static theory describing the low-frequency plasmonic resonances of slender nanometallic rings and configurations thereof. First, we use asymptotic arguments to reduce the plasmonic eigenvalue problem…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-23 Matias Ruiz , Ory Schnitzer

We formulate a microscopic theory to calculate cross section of the radiative neutron capture reaction on neutron-rich nuclei using the continuum random-phase approximation (cRPA) to the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT).…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Teruyuki Saito , Masayuki Matsuo

The threshold region for processes of hadronic and nuclear interactions is very interesting for a theoretical as well as an experimental point of view. In this region one can apply different physical methods, starting from classical current…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson , Michail P. Rekalo

Resonance is a general phenomenon which can happen in classic or quantum systems. An unbound many-body quantum system can undergo a self-resonant process. It has long been a challenge how to describe unbound many-body quantum systems in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-23 B. S. Hu , Q. Wu , Z. H. Sun , F. R. Xu

Nuclear resonances provide a rich and versatile testbed for exploring fundamental aspects of physics, particularly within the domain of strongly correlated many-body systems. The overarching goal of the theory is to develop a consistent and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-08 Elena Litvinova

The enhancement of radiative strength function (RSF) in the region of low $\gamma$-rays energy ($E_{\gamma}\leq 12$ MeV), which is caused by the pygmy dipole resonance (PDR), is treated within the phonon damping model (PDM) plus exact…

A semiclassical model, based on a solution of the Vlasov equation for finite systems with moving-surface, is employed to study the isoscalar dipole modes in nuclei. It is shown that, by taking into account the surface degree of freedom, it…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 V. I. Abrosimov , A. Dellafiore , F. Matera

Scattering of protons of several hundred MeV is a promising new spectroscopic tool for the study of electric dipole strength in nuclei. A case study of 208Pb shows that at very forward angles J^pi = 1- states are strongly populated via…