Conveners
Session 12: Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics
- Claes Fahlander (Lund University)
The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory on the campus of Michigan State University provided fast, stopped, and reaccelerated beams of rare isotopes for nuclear science research. This presentation will give an overview of the nuclear structure program with representative examples showcasing a complementary set of experimental techniques.
Giant Resonances (GRs) are considered to be high frequency shape-vibrations of the nucleus. Since the new millennium it became apparent that the IsoScalar Giant Quadrupole Resonance (ISGQR) exhibits fine structure that is independent of probe, and soon after that it was shown that other GRs also exhibit such fine structure. As such, this fine structure as an additional GR observable has been...
The study of nuclear giant resonances has long been a subject of extensive theoretical and experimental research. The multipole response of nuclei far from the beta-stability line and the possible occurrence of exotic modes of excitation present a growing field of research. In particular, the study of the isoscalar giant monopole resonances (ISGMR) in neutron-rich nuclei is presently an...
The dipole polarizability of $^{40}$Ca has been extracted from a zero-degree (p,p$^\prime$) experiment at RCNP [1]. Together with results from a previous experiment on $^{48}$Ca [2] it serves as a test of state-of-the-art ab initio [3,4] and EDF [5] calculations. From the good agreement obtained for both methods one can derive limits on the density dependence of the symmetry energy. These are...
