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Empirical drops in ground-state nuclear polarizabilities indicate deviations from the effect of giant dipole resonances and may reveal the presence of shell effects in semi-magic nuclei with neutron magic numbers $N=50$, 82 and 126. Similar…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-05 Cebo Ngwetsheni , Nico Orce

Our understanding of nuclear properties in the vicinity of $^{100}$Sn, suggested to be the heaviest doubly magic nucleus with equal numbers of protons (Z=50) and neutrons (N=50), has been a long-standing challenge for experimental and…

A unified theoretical model reproducing charge radii of known atomic nuclei plays an essential role in making extrapolations for unknown nuclei. Recently developed new ansatz which phenomenologically takes into account the neutron-proton…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-17 Rong An , Xiang Jiang , Li-Gang Cao , Feng-Shou Zhang

Radii of nuclear charge distributions carry information about the strong and electromagnetic forces acting inside the atomic nucleus. While the global behavior of nuclear charge radii is governed by the bulk properties of nuclear matter,…

Magic numbers lie at the heart of nuclear structure, reflecting enhanced stability in nuclei with closed shells. While the emergence of magic numbers beyond 20 is commonly attributed to strong spin-orbit coupling, the microscopic origin of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 C. R. Ding , C. C. Wang , J. M. Yao , H. Hergert , H. Z. Liang , S. Bogner

Measurements of the difference between the squared charge radii of the helion ($^3$He nucleus) and the $\alpha$-particle ($^4$He nucleus) have been characterized by longstanding tensions, recently spotlighted in the 3.6 $\sigma$ discrepancy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Simone Salvatore Li Muli , Thomas R. Richardson , Sonia Bacca

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

The kink observed in the nuclear charge radius of Sn isotopes around neutron number $N = 82$ is investigated within the relativistic mean-field (RMF) framework using the NL3$^*$ parameter set. It is shown that the small components of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-20 S. Marcos , N. Sandulescu , R. Niembro

In this study, the effects of the nucleon's intrinsic electromagnetic (EM) structure on the nuclear charge radius have been explored within the framework of the relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory. It is found that the intrinsic EM…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 Huihui Xie , Jian Li

Pronounced changes of nuclear charge radii provide a stringent benchmark on the theoretical models and play a vital role in recognizing various nuclear phenomena. In this work, the systematic evolutions of nuclear charge radii along even…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-28 Rong An , Xiao-Xu Dong , Li-Gang Cao , Feng-Shou Zhang

Magnetic moments of more than one hundred odd-odd spherical nuclei in ground and excited states are calculated within the self-consistent TFFS based on the EDF method by Fayans {\it et al}. We limit ourselves to nuclei with a neutron and a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-11-12 O. I. Achakovskiy , S. P. Kamerdzhiev , E. E. Saperstein , S. V. Tolokonnikov

We explore the effects on nuclear bulk properties of using regularization cutoffs larger than the nucleon mass within the chiral effective field theory with a power counting that ensures order-by-order renormalization in the two-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-27 M. Sánchez Sánchez , Dao Duy Duc , L. Bonneau

With the goal of developing predictive ab-initio capability for light and medium-mass nuclei, two-nucleon and three-nucleon forces from chiral effective field theory are optimized simultaneously to low-energy nucleon-nucleon scattering…

The artificial neural networks (ANNs) have emerged with successful applications in nuclear physics as well as in many fields of science in recent years. In this paper, by using (ANNs), we have constructed a formula for the nuclear charge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-01 S. Akkoyun , T. Bayram , S. O. Kara , A. Sinan

In nuclear physics a magic number is defined as the nucleon number, which is separated by a significantly large single-particle energy gap from the next nucleon. Magic numbers define the nuclear shells, which are considered to be active,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Andriana Martinou , Dennis Bonatsos

Based on relativistic mean field theory for atomic nuclei, we compute the mass radius and other radii associated with the energy momentum tensor for dozens of spin-0 nuclei across the nuclear chart. We also compute the D-term of these…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-13 Yoshitaka Hatta , Tomohiro Oishi , Makoto Oka

A systematic global investigation of differential charge radii has been performed within the CDFT framework for the first time. Theoretical results obtained with conventional covariant energy density functionals and separable pairing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 U. C. Perera , A. V. Afanasjev , P. Ring

The nucleon's strange-quark vector current form factors are studied from the perspective of chiral symmetry. It is argued that chiral perturbation theory cannot yield a prediction for the strangeness radius and magnetic moment. Arrival at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 M. J. Musolf , Hiroshi Ito

Based on the systematic investigation of the data available for $A \geq 40$, a $Z^{1/3}$ dependence for the nuclear charge radii is shown to be superior to the generally accepted $A^{1/3}$ law. A delicate scattering of data around…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Q. Zhang , J. Meng , S. -G. Zhou , J. Y. Zeng

Root-mean-square charge radii are discussed in terms of spherical Energy Density Functional (EDF) models corrected for quadrupole deformations. Comparisons between experiment and theory are made for the absolute radii of all even-even…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 B. Alex Brown , Kei Minamisono