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We aim to develop a nuclear energy density functional that can be simultaneously applied to finite nuclei and neutron stars. We use the self-consistent nuclear density functional theory (DFT) with Skyrme energy density functionals and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-28 J. Erler , C. J. Horowitz , W. Nazarewicz , M. Rafalski , P. -G. Reinhard

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

The analysis of statistical and systematic uncertainties and their propogation to nuclear extremes has been performed. Two extremes of nuclear landscape (neutron-rich nuclei and superheavy nuclei) have been investigated. For the first…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-10-12 A. V. Afanasjev , S. E. Agbemava , D. Ray , P. Ring

Covariant density functionals have been successfully applied to the description of finite nuclei and dense nuclear matter. These functionals are often constructed by introducing density dependence into the nucleon-meson couplings, typically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Guo-Jun Wei , Jia-Jie Li , Armen Sedrakian , Yong-Jia Wang , Qing-Feng Li , Fu-Hu Liu

The saturation of symmetric nuclear matter -- reflected in the nearly constant interior density of heavy nuclei -- is a defining property of nuclear matter. Modern relativistic energy density functionals (EDFs) calibrated exclusively to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Md Jafrul Islam , Athul Kunjipurayil , J. Piekarewicz , A. Volya

Radii of charge and neutron distributions are fundamental nuclear properties. They depend on both nuclear interaction parameters related to the equation of state of infinite nuclear matter and on quantal shell effects, which are strongly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-17 P. -G. Reinhard , W. Nazarewicz

We have recently developed a set of equations of state based on the nuclear energy density functional theory providing a unified description of the different regions constituting the interior of neutron stars and magnetars. The nuclear…

Covariant density functional theory is used to study the effect of strong magnetic fields, up to the limit predicted for neutron stars (for magnetars $B \approx10^{18}$G), on nuclear structure. All new terms in the equation of motion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Daniel Pena Arteaga , Marcella Grasso , Elias Khan , Peter Ring

In this study, my main goal is to examine the nuclear matter properties across a wide range of conditions, such as temperature, density, asymmetry, pressure, and magnetic field. Understanding the effect of these factors on nuclear matter is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-21 Vishal Parmar

The extraction of nuclear matter properties from measured nuclear masses is investigated in the energy density functional formalism of nuclei. It is shown that the volume energy $a_1$ and the nuclear incompressibility $K_0$ depend…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 K. C. Chung , C. S. Wang , A. J. Santiago

Bulk nuclear observables such as charge radii and binding energies are well described by both nonrelativistic and covariant mean-field models. However, predictions of neutron radii, which are not tightly constrained by reliable data, vary…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 R. J. Furnstahl

The foundation of the local energy-density functional method to describe the nuclear ground-state properties is given. The method is used to investigate differential observables such as the odd-even mass differences and odd-even effects in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Fayans , S. V. Tolokonnikov , E. L. Trykov , D. Zawischa

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

This study analyzes and contrasts different phenomenological methods used to model the nuclear equation of state (EOS) for neutron star matter based on covariant energy density functionals (CEDF). Using two complementary methodologies, we…

Models of Asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) with a sufficiently attractive and long-range force gives rise to stable bound objects, analogous to nuclei in the Standard Model, called nuggets. We study the properties of these nuggets and compute…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 Moira I. Gresham , Hou Keong Lou , Kathryn M. Zurek

Nuclear density functional theory is the prevalent theoretical framework for accurately describing nuclear properties at the scale of the entire chart of nuclides. Given an energy functional and a many-body scheme (e.g., single- or…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-19 N. Schunck , J. O'Neal , M. Grosskopf , E. Lawrence , S. M. Wild

Magnetic rotation and antimagnetic rotation are exotic rotational phenomena observed in weakly deformed or near-spherical nuclei, which are respectivelyinterpreted in terms of the shears mecha-nism and two shearslike mechanism. Since their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-18 J. Meng , J. Peng , S. Q. Zhang , P. W. Zhao

We investigate the impact of dark matter on neutron star properties using the relativistic mean-field theory. By incorporating the dark matter model, we explore how dark matter parameters, specifically dark matter mass and Fermi momentum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-29 Ankit Kumar , Hajime Sotani

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

Background: The study of additional terms in functionals is relevant to better describe nuclear structure phenomenology. Among these terms, the tensor one is known to impact nuclear structure properties, especially in neutron-rich nuclei.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-29 F. Mercier , J. -P. Ebran , E. Khan