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As cosmological data have improved, tensions have arisen. One such tension is the difference between the locally measured Hubble constant $H_0$ and the value inferred from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Interacting radiation has…

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Ground-state properties of neutron-rich $N \approx 28$ nuclei are described in the framework of Relativistic Hartree Bogoliubov (RHB) theory. The model uses the NL3 effective interaction in the mean-field Lagrangian, and describes pairing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 G. A. Lalazissis , D. Vretenar , P. Ring , M. Stoitsov , L. Robledo

We investigate a gas of superfluid fermionic atoms trapped in two hyperfine states by a spherical harmonic potential. We propose a new regularization method to remove the ultraviolet divergence in the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov equations…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-02-05 Marcella Grasso , Michael Urban

Self-consistent calculations within the relativistic mean field theory (RMFT) were performed for 150 spherical even-even nuclei. The macroscopic part of the binding energy was evaluated by subtracting the Strutinsky shell corrections from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Bozena Nerlo-Pomorska , Katarzyna Mazurek

We compute the static density and spin structure factors in the long wavelength limit for pure neutron matter at subsaturation densities relevant to core-collapse supernovae within the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (BHF) approach. The BHF results…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-30 Gang Guo , Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo , Meng-Ru Wu

The nuclear equation of state is explored with the constrained HFB approach for self conjugate nuclei. It is found that beyond a certain low, more or less universal density, those nuclei spontaneously cluster into A/4 alpha particles with A…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Michel Girod , Peter Schuck

Level density $\rho(E,N,Z)$ is calculated for the two-component close- and open-shell nuclei with a given energy $E$, and neutron $N$ and proton $Z$ numbers, taking into account pairing effects within the microscopic-macroscopic approach…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-16 A. G. Magner , A. I. Sanzhur , S. N. Fedotkin , A. I. Levon , U. V. Grygoriev , S. Shlomo

We introduce a generic approach to study interaction effects in diffusive or chaotic quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime. The randomness of the single-particle wave functions induces randomness in the two-body interaction matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Alhassid , H. A. Weidenmueller , A. Wobst

We study proton-neutron pairing correlations within the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) framework using Gogny-type energy density functionals. By allowing for proton-neutron mixing in the quasi-particle transformation, both isovector ($T=1$)…

Recently it has been demonstrated, considering Ni and Ca isotopes as prototypes, that the relativistic mean-field plus BCS (RMF+BCS) approach wherein the single particle continuum corresponding to the RMF is replaced by a set of discrete…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 H. L. Yadav , M. Kaushik , H. Toki

Evolutions of single-particle energies and Z=64 sub-shell along the isotonic chain of N=82 are investigated in the density dependent relativistic Hartree-Fock (DDRHF) theory in comparison with other commonly used mean field models such as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 Wen Hui Long , Takashi Nakatsukasa , Hiroyuki Sagawa , Jie Meng , Hitoshi Nakada , Ying Zhang

Empirically determined values of the nuclear volume and surface symmetry energy coefficients from nuclear masses are expressed in terms of density distributions of nucleons in heavy nuclei in the local density approximation. This is then…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar , G. Colo , A. Sulaksono

We present the code HF-SHELL for solving the self-consistent mean-field equations for configuration-interaction shell model Hamiltonians in the proton-neutron formalism. The code can calculate both ground-state and finite-temperature…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-15 W. Ryssens , Y. Alhassid

We show that the lowest-energy solution of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) equation has the even particle-number parity as long as the time-reversal symmetry is conserved in the HFB Hamiltonian without null eigenvalues. Based on this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-11 Haruki Kasuya , Kenichi Yoshida

Background: The relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (RHFB) theory has recently been developed and it provides a unified and highly predictive description of both nuclear mean field and pairing correlations. Ground state properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-16 Jia Jie Li , Jérôme Margueron , Wen Hui Long , Nguyen Van Giai

Important features of low-frequency collective vibrational excitations in neutron drip line nuclei are studied. We emphasize that pairing anti-halo effect in the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) theory play crucial roles to realize collective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Masayuki Yamagami

The constrained Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approximation, based on the recent parametrization D1M$^{*}$ of the Gogny energy density functional, is used to describe fission in 435 superheavy nuclei. The Gogny-D1M$^{*}$ parametrization is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-15 R. Rodríguez-Guzmán , Y. M. Humadi , L. M. Robledo

Microscopic Combinatorial approach is used to calculate the state and level densities with fixed exciton numbers, in some actinide nuclei. Deformed Saxon-Woods shell model was used as a basis from which all posible configurations were…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-08-17 F. Garcia , O Rodriguez , F. Guzman , H. Dias , J. D. T Arruda-Neto , M. S. Hussein , A. K. Kerman

We use the canonical Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov basis to implement a completely self-consistent quasiparticle-random-phase approximation with arbitrary Skyrme energy density functionals and density-dependent pairing functionals. The point of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-18 J. Terasaki , J. Engel , M. Bender , J. Dobaczewski , W. Nazarewicz , M. Stoitsov

We employed the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock model to investigate the density distributions and their dependence on nuclear shapes and isospins in the superheavy mass region. Different Skyrme forces were used for the calculations with a special…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 J. C. Pei , F. R. Xu , P. D. Stevenson