Mean field and beyond description of nuclear structure with the Gogny force: a review

LM Robledo, TR Rodríguez… - Journal of Physics G …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Nowadays, the Gogny force is a referent in the theoretical description of nuclear structure
phenomena. Its phenomenological character manifests in a simple analytical form that …

[HTML][HTML] The neutron-rich edge of the nuclear landscape: Experiment and theory.

F Nowacki, A Obertelli, A Poves - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
In this review, we describe the experimental facilities and methods which make it possible to
produce and measure the properties of the extreme neutron-rich nuclei. We then develop …

Collapse of the shell closure in the newly discovered nucleus and the development of deformed halos towards the neutron dripline

KY Zhang, P Papakonstantinou, MH Mun, Y Kim, H Yan… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
Halos and changes of nuclear magicities have been extensively investigated in exotic nuclei
during past decades. The newly discovered Na 39 with the neutron number N= 28 provides …

The impact of nuclear shape on the emergence of the neutron dripline

N Tsunoda, T Otsuka, K Takayanagi, N Shimizu… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Atomic nuclei are composed of a certain number of protons Z and neutrons N. A natural
question is how large Z and N can be. The study of superheavy elements explores the large …

Discovery of

DS Ahn, J Amano, H Baba, N Fukuda, H Geissel… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The new isotope Na 39, the most neutron-rich sodium nucleus observed so far, was
discovered at the RIKEN Nishina Center Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory using the …

DALI2: A NaI (Tl) detector array for measurements of γ rays from fast nuclei

S Takeuchi, T Motobayashi, Y Togano… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2014 - Elsevier
A NaI (Tl) detector array called DALI2 (Detector Array for Low Intensity radiation 2) has been
constructed for in-beam γ-ray spectroscopy experiments with fast radioactive isotope (RI) …

Shape Coexistence in as the Portal to the Fifth Island of Inversion

F Nowacki, A Poves, E Caurier, B Bounthong - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Large-scale shell-model calculations predict that the region of deformation which comprises
the heaviest chromium and iron isotopes at and beyond N= 40 will merge with a new one at …

Crossing Toward the Neutron Drip Line: First Measurement of Half-Lives at FRIB

HL Crawford, V Tripathi, JM Allmond, BP Crider… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
New half-lives for exotic isotopes approaching the neutron drip-line in the vicinity of N∼ 28
for Z= 12–15 were measured at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) with the FRIB …

Merging of the islands of inversion at and

E Caurier, F Nowacki, A Poves - Physical Review C, 2014 - APS
The N= 20 and N= 28 “islands of inversion” are described by large scale shell model
calculations with an extension of the interaction SDPF-U that makes it possible to mix …

Ab initio multishell valence-space Hamiltonians and the island of inversion

T Miyagi, SR Stroberg, JD Holt, N Shimizu - Physical review C, 2020 - APS
In the shell-model framework, valence-space Hamiltonians connecting multiple major-
oscillator shells are of key interest for investigating the physics of neutron-rich nuclei, which …