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Bound, strange, neutral superheavy nuclei, stable against strong decay, may exist. A model effective field theory calculation of the surface energy and density of such systems is carried out assuming vector meson couplings to conserved…

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We extend the shell model Monte Carlo approach to heavy deformed nuclei using a new proton-neutron formalism. The low excitation energies of such nuclei necessitate calculations at low temperatures for which a stabilization method is…

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Nuclear Astrophysics requires the knowledge of reaction rates over a wide range of nuclei and temperatures. In recent calculations the nuclear level density - as an important ingredient to the statistical model (Hauser-Feshbach) - has shown…

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We present a new semi-classical theory for describing pairing in finite Fermi systems. It is based in taking the $\hbar \to 0$, i.e. Thomas-Fermi, limit of the gap equation written in the basis of the mean field (weak coupling). In addition…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 X. Vinas , P. Schuck , M. Farine

The modern form of the Moments Method applied to the calculation of the nuclear shell-model level density is explained and examples of the method at work are given. The calculated level density practically exactly coincides with the result…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 V. Zelevinsky , M. Horoi , R. A. Sen'kov

We investigate separations of trapped balanced two-component atomic Fermi gases with repulsive contact interaction. Candidates for ground-state densities are obtained from the imaginary-time evolution of a nonlinear pseudo-Schr\"odinger…

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The shell corrections and shell gaps in nuclei are systematically studied with the latest Weizs\"acker-Skyrme (WS4) mass model. We find that most of asymmetric nuclei with (sub)-shell closures locate along the shell stability line (SSL),…

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We present a novel nuclear energy density functional method to calculate spectroscopic properties of atomic nuclei. Intrinsic nuclear quadrupole deformations and rotational frequencies are considered simultaneously as the degrees of freedom…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-10 J. Luis Egido , Marta Borrajo , Tomás R. Rodríguez

Level density $\rho(E,{\bf Q})$ is derived within the micro-macroscopic approximation (MMA) for a system of strongly interacting Fermi particles with the energy $E$ and additional integrals of motion ${\bf Q}$, in line with several topics…

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The nuclear binding energies for 28 nuclei including several isotopic chains with masses ranging from A=64 to A=226 were evaluated using the Skyrme effective nucleon-nucleon interaction and the Extended Thomas-Fermi approximation. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Dobrowolski , K. Pomorski , J. Bartel

The direct determination of the excitation level density and radiative strength functions of their exciting gamma-transitions is impossible for the larger part of the stable and long-life radioactive target nuclei. This circumstance is…

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The new definition of the energy dependence for the level density parameter including collective effects depends strongly on the semi-classical approach. For this method, defining an accurate single-particle potential is of great…

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We review recent advances in the shell model Monte Carlo approach for the microscopic calculation of statistical and collective properties of nuclei. We discuss applications to the calculation of (i) level densities in nickel isotopes,…

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The configuration interaction approach to nuclear structure uses the effective Hamiltonian in a finite orbital space. The various parts of this Hamiltonian and their interplay are responsible for specific features of physics including the…

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Variational calculations of excited electronic states are carried out by finding saddle points on the surface that describes how the energy of the system varies as a function of the electronic degrees of freedom. This approach has several…

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We propose a neural-network-based variational framework for nuclear Density Functional Theory based on the extended Thomas--Fermi (ETF) model, in which proton and neutron number densities are represented by multilayer perceptrons and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Kenta Yoshimura

A fully systematic study of even and odd isotopes (281 $\leq$ A $\leq$ 380) of Z = 121 superheavy nuclei is presented in theoretical frameworks of Relativistic mean-field plus state dependent BCS approach and Macroscopic-Microscopic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 G. Saxena , U. K. Singh , M. Kumawat , M. Kaushik , S. K. Jain , Mamta Aggarwal

The nuclear $\alpha$ decay of heavy nuclei is investigated based on the nuclear energy density functional, which leads to the $\alpha$ potential inside the parent nucleus in terms of the proton and neutron density profiles of the daughter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-22 Yeunhwan Lim , Yongseok Oh