Related papers: Cluster mean field description of alpha emission
Background: For nuclei heavier than $^{208}$Pb $\alpha$ decay is a dominating decay mode, and in the search of new superheavy elements one often observes chains of $\alpha$ decays. Purpose: Explore and test microscopic descriptions of…
We present a microscopic description of cluster emission processes within the Cluster--Hartree--Fock (CHF) self--consistent field (SCF) theory. The starting point is a Woods--Saxon (WS) mean field (MF) with spin--orbit and Coulomb terms.…
A multi-configuration mixing approach built on essentially complex, symmetry-projected Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) mean fields is introduced. The mean fields are obtained by variation after projection. The configuration space consists out…
We perform particle-number projected mean-field study using the recently developed symmetry-projected Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) equations. Realistic calculations have been performed in sd- and fp-shell nuclei using the shell model…
A new method of calculating pairing correlations in coordinate space with finite range interactions is presented. In the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) approach the mean field part is derived from a Skyrme-type force whereas the pairing…
We present an overview of beyond mean field theories (BMFT) based on the generator coordinate method (GCM) and the recovery of symmetries used in nuclear physics with effective forces. After a reminder of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB)…
Cluster radioactivity is the emission of a fragment heavier than $\alpha$ particle and lighter than mass 50. The range of clusters observed in experiments goes from $^{14}$C to $^{32}$Si while the heavy mass residue is always a nucleus in…
Combining several techniques, we propose an efficient and numerically reliable method to perform the quantum number projection and configuration mixing for most general mean-field states, i.e., the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) type product…
Cluster radioactivity is described as a very mass asymmetric fission process. The reflection symmetry breaking octupole moment has been used in a mean field HFB theory as leading coordinate instead of the quadrupole moment usually used in…
Several pairing schemes currently used to describe superfluid nuclei through Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov (HFB) calculations are briefly reviewed. We put a particular emphasis on the regularization recipes used in connection with zero-range…
We formulate a new scheme of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mean-field theory applicable to weakly bound and pair correlated deformed nuclei using the coordinate-space Green's function technique. On the basis of a coupled-channel…
We extensively develop a method of implementing mean-field calculations for deformed nuclei, using the Gaussian expansion method (GEM). This GEM algorithm has the following advantages: (i) it can efficiently describe the energy-dependent…
A set of relativistic mean field models is constructed including the Hartree and Hartree-Fock approximation accounting for the exchange of isoscalar and isovector mesons as well as the pion. Density dependent coupling functions are…
To describe quantal collective phenomena, it is useful to requantize the time-dependent mean-field dynamics. We study the time-dependent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (TDHFB) theory for the two-level pairing Hamiltonian, and compare results of…
A systematic numerical investigation of a recently developed nuclear structure approach is presented which diagonalizes the Hamiltonian in the space of the symmetry-projected Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) vacuum and symmetry-projected…
The coordinate space formulation of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) method enables self-consistent treatment of mean-field and pairing in weakly bound systems whose properties are affected by the particle continuum space. Of particular…
We present an overview of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) theory of nucleonic superfluidity for finite nuclei. After introducing basic concepts related to pairing correlations, we show how the correlated pairs are incorporated into the…
We present the first set of results of solving the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov equations, which describe the self-consistent mean field theory with pairing interaction. Calculations for even-even nuclei are carried out on a two-dimensional…
Quantum-chemical calculations aimed at deriving magnetic coupling constants in exchange-coupled spin clusters commonly utilize a broken-symmetry (BS) approach. This involves calculating several distinct collinear spin configurations,…
Nuclei far from stability are studied by solving the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) equations, which describe the self-consistent mean field theory with pairing interaction. Calculations for even-even nuclei are carried out on…