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Nuclides sharing the same mass number (isobars) are observed ubiquitously along the stability line. While having nearly identical radii, stable isobars can differ in shape, and present in particular different quadrupole deformations. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Giuliano Giacalone , Jiangyong Jia , Vittorio Somà

Nuclear deformation effects are theoretically investigated in terms of deformation corrections of the electronic binding and transition energies, $g$ factor, and hyperfine splitting constant. By solving the Dirac equation twice, with the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Zewen Sun , Igor A. Valuev , Natalia S. Oreshkina

There is growing evidence that high-energy scattering processes involving nuclei can offer unique insights into the many-body correlations present in nuclear ground states, in particular those of deformed nuclei. These processes involve,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-23 Jean-Paul Blaizot , Giuliano Giacalone

Background: In the mass regions with an abnormal shell structure, the so-called ``island of inversion," the spin-parity of odd-mass nuclei provides quantitative insights into the shell evolution. However, the experimental determination of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-19 R. Barman , W. Horiuchi , M. Kimura , R. Chatterjee

Soft colloids allow to explore high density states well beyond random close packing. An important open question is whether softness controls the dynamics under these dense conditions. While experimental works reported conflicting results,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-08 Nicoletta Gnan , Emanuela Zaccarelli

Accurate description of deformed atomic nuclei by the orbital-free density functional theory has been a longstanding textbook challenge, due to the difficulty in accounting for the intricate quantum shell effects that are present in such…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 X. H. Wu , Z. X. Ren , P. W. Zhao

An electron density functional approach for the calculation of the nuclear multipole moments is presented. The electronic matrix elements entering the experimentally observed hyperfine electron-nucleus interaction constants in atoms are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. L. Pavlov , P. P. Raychev , V. P. Garistov , M. Dimitrova-Ivanovich , J. Maruani

We investigate the stability and softness of nuclei against quadrupole, octupole, and hexadecapole deformation. By applying the spherical Skyrme-force Hartree-Fock Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer quasi-particle random phase approximation, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Le-Anh Nguyen , Minh-Loc Bui , Panagiota Papakonstantinou , Naftali Auerbach

The behavior of an atomic system is influenced by introducing a metallic surface. This work explores how the decay landscape can be altered by the presence of sharp corners. We examine two scenarios: the modified spontaneous decay of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Romuald Kilianski , Robert Bennett

We investigate the possibility that some nuclei show density distributions with a depletion in the center, a semi-bubble structure, by using a Hartree-Fock plus Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer approach. We separately study the proton, neutron and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-21 G. Co' , M. Anguiano , V. De Donno , A. M. Lallena

This contribution reviews a selection of findings on atomic density functions and discusses ways for reading chemical information from them. First an expression for the density function for atoms in the multi-configuration Hartree--Fock…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Alex Borgoo , Michel R. Godefroid , P. Geerlings

Nucleon momentum distributions at various densities and isospin-asymmetries for nuclear matter are investigated systematically within the extended Bruecker-Hartree-Fock approach.The shapes of the normalized momentum distributions varying…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-27 Z. X. Yang , X. L. Shang , G. C. Yong , W. Zuo , Y. Gao

The N = Z 44Ti* nucleus has been populated in Fusion Evaporation process at very high excitation energies and angular momenta using two entrance channels with different mass-asymmetry. The deformation effects in the rapidly rotating nuclei…

We provide new insights into backbending phenomenon within the symmetry-adapted framework which naturally describes the intrinsic deformation of atomic nuclei. For $^{20}\text{Ne}$, the canonical example of backbending in light nuclei, the…

We study weakly-bound deformed nuclei based on the coordinate-space Skyrme Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approach, in which a large box is employed for treating the continuum and surface diffuseness. Approaching the limit of core-halo deformation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 J. C. Pei , Y. N. Zhang , F. R. Xu

This work establishes a deep connection between two seemingly distant branches of nuclear physics: nuclear structure and relativistic heavy-ion collisions. At the heart of this connection is the recent discovery made at particle colliders…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-05 Giuliano Giacalone

Deformation is fundamental to understanding nuclear structure. We compare two ways to efficiently realize deformation for many-fermion wavefunctions, the leading SU(3) irrep and the angular-momentum projected Hartree-Fock state. In the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Calvin W. Johnson , Ionel Stetcu , J. P. Draayer

We investigate the influence of the nuclear deformation on the decay rates of some cluster emission processes. The interaction between the daughter and the cluster is given by a double folding potential including quadrupole and hexadecupole…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Misicu , D. Protopopescu

Experimentally resolving atomic-scale structural changes of a deformed glass remains challenging owing to the disordered nature of glass structure. Here, we show that the structural anisotropy emerges as a general hallmark for different…

The inelastic scattering of electrons on weakly-bound nuclei is studied with a simple model based on the long range behavior of the bound state wavefunction and on the effective-range expansion for the continuum wavefunctions. Three…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 C. A. Bertulani