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Some recent advancements of the nuclear many-body theory and selected results on nuclear giant and pygmy resonances are presented. The theory is compactly reviewed, with a special focus on the emergent scale of the quasiparticle-vibration…
I present a brief summary of the first three decades of studies of pygmy resonances in nuclei and their relation to the symmetry energy of nuclear matter. I discuss the first experiments and theories dedicated to study the electromagnetic…
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Photoneutron reactions on $^{208}$Pb in the Giant Dipole Resonance energy region have been investigated at the $\gamma$-ray beam line of the NewSUBARU facility in Japan. The measurements made use of quasi-monochromatic laser Compton…
Reaction-rate calculations relevant to r-process nucleosynthesis depend sensitively on the nuclear $\gamma$-strength function ($\gamma$SF). Here we investigate the impact of low-lying pygmy dipole strength (PDS) in $(n,\gamma)$ and…
We study the correlation between the neutron skin development and the low-energy dipole response associated with the pygmy dipole resonance (PDR) in connection with the properties of symmetry energy. We perform our investigation within a…
We consider atoms or molecules coupled to the quantized electromagnetic radiation field in a dipole approximation. We show the existence of ground states and resonance states in situations where the eigenvalues are degenerate and protected…
The collective excitation phenomena in atomic nuclei are studied in two different formulations of the Random Phase Approximation (RPA): (i) RPA based on correlated realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions constructed within the Unitary…
A new version of random phase approximation is proposed for low-energy harmonic vibrations in nuclei. The theory is not based on the quasi-particle vacuum of the BCS/HFB ground state, but on the pair condensate determined in Ref. [4]. The…
We review a recent progress in investigation of the isoscalar toroidal dipole resonance (TDR). A possible relation of the TDR and low-energy dipole strength (also called a pygmy resonance) is analyzed. It is shown that the dipole strength…
The gross features of the observed baryon excitation spectrum below 2 GeV are well explained if the spectrum generating algebra of its intrinsic orbital angular momentum states is o(4)*su(2)_I. The spins of the resonances are obtained…
Low-energy dipole excitations have been investigated theoretically in N=50, several N=82 isotones and the Z=50 Sn isotopes. For this purpose a method incorporating both HFB and multi-phonon QPM theory is applied. A concentration of…
The proton-neutron relativistic quasiparticle random phase approximation (PN-RQRPA) is formulated in the canonical single-nucleon basis of the relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov (RHB) model, for an effective Lagrangian characterized by…
In order to study isovector dipole response of neutron-rich nuclei, we have applied a time-dependent method of antisymmetrized molecular dynamics. The dipole resonances in Be, B and C isotopes have been investigated. In $^{10}$Be, $^{15}$B,…
The isoscalar dibaryon resonance $D_{03}(2380)$, discovered at WASA@COSY in the total cross section of the reaction $pn\to d\pi^0\pi^0$ and in the elastic pn scattering in the energy range corresponding to the invariant mass of the pn…
We investigate effects of pairing and of quadrupole deformation on two sorts of nuclear excitations,$\gamma$-vibrational $K^{\pi}=2^+$ states and dipole resonances (isovector dipole, pygmy, compression, toroidal). The analysis is performed…