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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 present calculations of nuclear level densities that are based upon the detailed microphysics of the interacting shell model yet are also computationally tractable. To do this, we combine in a novel fashion several previously disparate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Calvin W. Johnson , Jameel-Un Nabi , W. Erich Ormand

The shell model Monte Carlo (SMMC) method enables calculations in model spaces that are many orders of magnitude larger than those that can be treated by conventional methods, and is particularly suitable for the calculation of level…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Y. Alhassid , M. Bonett-Matiz , S. Liu , A. Mukherjee , H. Nakada

A microscopic method for calculating nuclear level densities (NLD) is developed, based on the framework of energy density functionals. Intrinsic level densities are computed from single-quasiparticle spectra obtained in a finite-temperature…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-18 Jie Zhao , Tamara Nikšić , Dario Vretenar

The shell model Monte Carlo (SMMC) approach allows for the microscopic calculation of statistical and collective properties of heavy nuclei using the framework of the configuration-interaction shell model in very large model spaces. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 C. Özen , Y. Alhassid , H. Nakada

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 particle-number reprojection method in the shell model Monte Carlo that enables the calculation of observables for a series of nuclei using a Monte Carlo sampling for a single nucleus. The method is used to calculate nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Alhassid , S. Liu , H. Nakada

Statistical level density $\rho(E,A)$ is derived for nucleonic system with a given energy $E$, particle number $A$ and other integrals of motion in the micro-macroscopic approximation beyond the standard saddle-point method of the Fermi gas…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-08 A. G. Magner , A. I. Sanzhur , S. N. Fedotkin , A. I. Levon , S. Shlomo

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 A. G. Magner , A. I. Sanzhur , S. N. Fedotkin , A. I. Levon , U. V. Grygoriev , S. Shlomo

The energy spectra of neutrons, protons, and alpha-particles have been measured from the d+59Co and 3He+58Fe reactions leading to the same compound nucleus, 61$Ni. The experimental cross sections have been compared to Hauser-Feshbach model…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 A. V. Voinov , S. M. Grimes , C. R. Brune , M. J. Hornish , T. N. Massey , A. Salas

The main formalisms of partial level densities (PLD) used in preequilibrium nuclear reaction models, based on the equidistant spacing model (ESM), are considered. A collection of FORTRAN77 functions for PLD calculation by using 14…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Avrigeanu , V. Avrigeanu

A particle-number reprojection method is applied in the framework of the shell model Monte Carlo approach to calculate level densities for a family of nuclei using Monte Carlo sampling for a single nucleus. In particular we can also…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Liu , Y. Alhassid , H. Nakada

Total and parity-projected level densities of iron-region nuclei are calculated microscopically by using Monte Carlo methods for the nuclear shell model in the complete $(pf+0g_{9/2})$-shell. The calculated total level density is found to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Nakada , Y. Alhassid

We systematically study the nuclear level densities of superheavy nuclei, including odd systems, using the single-particle energies obtained with the Woods-Saxon potential diagonalization. Minimization over many deformation parameters for…

Starting from an independent-particle model with a finite and arbitrary set of single-particle energies, we develop an analytical approximation to the many-body level density $\rho_A(E)$ and to particle-hole densities. We use exact…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-09-30 Adriana Pálffy , Hans A. Weidenmüller

The nuclear density of states plays an important role in nuclear reactions. At high energies, above a few MeV, the nuclear density of states is well described by a formula that depends on the smooth single particle density of states at the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjay K. Ghosh , Byron K. Jennings

In the independent-particle model, the nuclear level density is determined from the neutron and proton single-particle level densities. The single-particle level density for the positive-energy continuum levels is important at high…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 R. J. Charity , L. G. Sobotka

Level density $\rho(E,N,Z)$ is derived for a nuclear system with a given energy $E$, neutron $N$, and proton $Z$ particle numbers, within the semiclassical extended Thomas-Fermi and periodic-orbit theory beyond the Fermi-gas saddle-point…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-06 A. G. Magner , A. I. Sanzhur , S. N. Fedotkin , A. I. Levon , S. Shlomo

New developments have been brought to our energy-, spin- and parity-dependent nuclear level densities based on the microscopic combinatorial method. Our new calculation is based on the BSkG3 mean-field model which relies on a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-08 S. Goriely , W. Ryssens , S. Hilaire , A. J. Koning

We calculate microscopically total and parity-projected level densities for $\beta$-stable even-even nuclei between Fe and Ge, using the shell model Monte Carlo methods in the complete $(pf+0g_{9/2})$-shell. A single-particle level density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Nakada , Y. Alhassid