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A systematic study of the ground state properties of the entire chains of even even neutron magic nuclei represented by isotones of traditional neutron magic numbers N = 8, 20, 40, 50, 82 and 126 has been carried out using relativistic mean…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 G. Saxena , M. Kaushik

We present a selection of the first results obtained in a comprehensive calculation of ground state properties of even-even superheavy nuclei in the region of 96 < Z < 136 and 118 < N < 320 from the Quark-Meson-Coupling model (QMC). Ground…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Jirina Stone , Pierre Guichon , Anthony Thomas

We present a systematic study on the structural properties of odd-$Z$ superheavy nuclei with proton numbers $Z=117, 119$, and neutron numbers $N$ increasing from $N=170$ to the neutron dripline within the framework of axially deformed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-07 Y. X. Zhang , B. R. Liu , K. Y. Zhang , J. M. Yao

The structure of neutron-rich Cr isotopes is systematically investigated by using the spherical shell model. The calculations reproduce well the known energy levels for the even-even $^{52-62}$Cr and odd-mass $^{53-59}$Cr nuclei, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-01-01 K. Kaneko , Y. Sun , M. Hasegawa , T. Mizusaki

The microscopic structure of neutron-rich sd-shell nuclei is investigated by using the spherical shell-model in the sd-pf valence space with the extended pairing plus quadrupole-quadrupole forces accompanied by the monopole interaction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Kazunari Kaneko , Yang Sun , Takahiro Mizusaki , Munetake Hasegawa

Ground state properties of SiC, AlN, GaN and InN in the zinc-blende and wurtzite structures are determined using an ab initio scheme. For the self-consistent field part of the calculations, the Hartree-Fock program Crystal has been used.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 Beate Paulus , Fa-Jian Shi , Hermann Stoll

Large-scale shell-model calculations have been performed to study the nuclear structure properties of Hg isotopes with mass varying from $A=193$ to $A=200$. The shell-model calculations are carried out in the 50 $\leq Z \leq$ 82 and 82 $…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Subhrajit Sahoo , Praveen C. Srivastava , Noritaka Shimizu , Yutaka Utsuno

The ground-state properties of superheavy $Z = 122$ isotopes are investigated using the deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum (DRHBc). Bulk properties, including binding energies, Fermi energies, nucleon separation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Jin-Hong Zhuang , Zhen-Hua Zhang , Yuan-Yuan Wang , Cong Pan , Kai-Yuan Zhang , Huan-Yu Zhang , Yu Sun

The surface energy is one of the fundamental properties nuclei, appearing in the simplest form of the semi-empirical mass formula. The surface enery has an influence on e.g. the shape of a nucleus and its ability to deform. This in turn…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 P. D. Stevenson

Beyond uranium heavy elements rapidly become increasingly unstable with respect to spontaneous fission as the proton number Z increases, because of the disruptive effect of the long-range Coulomb force. However, in the region just beyond Z…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Peter Moller , J. Rayford Nix

The experimental binding energies of single-particle and single-hole neutron states belonging to neutron shells that extend from N = 126 to 184 and 82 to 126 respectively, have been reproduced by solving the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 J. A. Liendo , E. Castro , R. Gómez , D. D. Caussyn

The structure of superheavy elements newly discovered in the $^{208}$Pb($^{86}$Kr,n) reaction at Berkeley is systematically studied in the Relativistic Mean Field (RMF) approach. It is shown that various usually employed RMF forces, which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Meng , N. Takigawa

We investigate the statistical properties of 56-57Fe within a model capable of treating all the nucleons as active in an infinite model space including pairing effects. Working within the canonical ensemble, our model is built on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Bassam Shehadeh , James P. Vary

The ground-state properties and shape evolution of even-even hafnium isotopes ranging from $N=80$ to the neutron dripline are thoroughly examined using Covariant Density Functional Theory (CDFT) with density-dependent effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-17 Usuf Rahaman

Half-lives of beta+ decay and electron capture are studied in some selected superheavy nuclei produced in hot fusion reactions, namely, 290Fl, 293Mc, 294Lv, and 295Ts. The nuclear structure is described microscopically from deformed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-17 P. Sarriguren

We have explored the occurrence of the spherical shell closures for superheavy nuclei in the framework of the relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (RHFB) theory. Shell effects are characterized in terms of two-nucleon gaps $\delta_{2n(p)}$.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Jia Jie Li , Wen Hui Long , Jerome Margueron , Nguyen Van Giai

We have performed deformed Hartree-Fock+BCS calculations with the Skyrme SIII force for the ground states of even-even nuclei with 2 <= Z <= 114 and N ranging from outside the proton drip line to beyond the experimental frontier in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Naoki Tajima , Satoshi Takahara , Naoki Onishi

We have performed shell-model calculations for the nucleus $^{137}$Xe, which was recently studied experimentally using the $^{136}$Xe($d,p$) reaction in inverse kinematics. The main aim of our study has been to investigate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 L. Coraggio , A. Covello , A. Gargano , N. Itaco

We propose a procedure to determine the effective nuclear shell-model Hamiltonian in a truncated space from a self-consistent mean-field model, e.g., the Skyrme model. The parameters of pairing plus quadrupole-quadrupole interaction with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 Kazunari Kaneko , Takahiro Mizusaki , Yang Sun , Munetake Hasegawa

Shell model studies have been done for very neutron - rich nuclei in the range Z=50-55 and N=82-87. Good agreement of the theoretical level spectra with the experimental one for N=82, 83 I and Te nuclei is shown. Then the results for three…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Sukhendusekhar Sarkar , M. Saha Sarkar