Conveners
Session 5: Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics
- Nikolai Antonenko (BLTP, JINR)
Following their discovery, great progress has been made in recent years in elucidating the atomic and nuclear properties of the superheavy elements, driven by the need to understand nuclear stability and how these atoms behave chemically.
Optical spectroscopy enables experimental exploration of the atomic structure of the elements and equally provides an alternative access to important...
Breakthroughs in our treatment of the many-body problem and nuclear forces are rapidly transforming modern nuclear theory into a true first-principles discipline. This allows us to address some of the most exciting questions at the frontiers of nuclear structure and physics beyond the standard model, such as the nature of dark matter and neutrino masses, as well as searches for violations of...
The rare-earth isotopic chain of Samarium provides an excellent opportunity to systematically investigate the evolution of nuclear structure effects from the near-spherical ($β_{2}$=0.00) $^{144}$Sm isotope to the well-deformed system ($β_{2}$=0.27) $^{154}$Sm. As the nuclear shape changes, statistical properties such as the nuclear level density (NLD) and $\gamma$-strength function...
Nuclei in $A\sim50$ region that are close to the line of stability and have ($1f_{7/2}$)$^{n}$ ground state configuration for both proton and neutron, were investigated. Particularly, $^{51}Cr$ (Z =24) and $^{50}V$(Z =23) are of special interest as the proton $1f_{7/2}$ is only about half-occupied, but number of neutrons in neutron $1f_{7/2}$ orbital is just one short of the shell closure. ...
Although the atomic nucleus consists of strongly interacting nucleons, it is noteworthy that for such strongly interacting quantum system the independent-particle model is proven to be a valid approximation and has provided a basic framework to explain many properties of nuclei. However, correlations between the nucleons, both of short- and long-range nature, modify the mean-field...
