Shape coexistence in atomic nuclei

K Heyde, JL Wood - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
Shape coexistence in nuclei appears to be unique in the realm of finite many-body quantum
systems. It differs from the various geometrical arrangements that sometimes occur in a …

Halos in medium-heavy and heavy nuclei with covariant density functional theory in continuum

J Meng, SG Zhou - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Covariant density functional theory with a few parameters has been widely used to describe
the ground-and excited-state properties for nuclei all over the nuclear chart. In order to …

Deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum

L Li, J Meng, P Ring, EG Zhao, SG Zhou - Physical Review C—Nuclear …, 2012 - APS
A deformed relativistic Hartree Bogoliubov (RHB) theory in continuum is developed aiming
at a proper description of exotic nuclei, particularly those with a large spatial extension. In …

[HTML][HTML] β-decay half-lives of neutron-rich nuclei and matter flow in the r-process

ZM Niu, YF Niu, HZ Liang, WH Long, T Nikšić… - Physics Letters B, 2013 - Elsevier
The β-decay half-lives of neutron-rich nuclei with 20≤ Z≤ 50 are systematically investigated
using the newly developed fully self-consistent proton–neutron quasiparticle random phase …

A proton density bubble in the doubly magic 34Si nucleus

A Mutschler, A Lemasson, O Sorlin, D Bazin, C Borcea… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Many properties of the atomic nucleus, such as vibrations, rotations and incompressibility,
can be interpreted as due to a two-component quantum liquid of protons and neutrons …

Nuclear reactions in the crusts of accreting neutron stars

R Lau, M Beard, SS Gupta, H Schatz… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray observations of transiently accreting neutron stars during quiescence provide
information about the structure of neutron star crusts and the properties of dense matter …

A new view of nuclear shells

R Kanungo - Physica Scripta, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The nuclear shell structure that has served as a fundamental framework for understanding
the arrangement of nucleons exhibits dramatic changes as the neutron to proton ratio in …

Comparative study of neural network and model averaging methods in nuclear β-decay half-life predictions

WF Li, XY Zhang, YF Niu, ZM Niu - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Nuclear β-decay half-lives are investigated using the two-hidden-layer neural network and
compared with the model averaging method. By carefully designing the input and hidden …

Nuclear /EC decays in covariant density functional theory and the impact of isoscalar proton-neutron pairing

ZM Niu, YF Niu, Q Liu, HZ Liang, JY Guo - Physical Review C—Nuclear …, 2013 - APS
Self-consistent proton-neutron quasiparticle random phase approximation based on the
spherical nonlinear point-coupling relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory is established and …

Nuclear β-decay half-lives in the relativistic point-coupling model

ZY Wang, YF Niu, ZM Niu, JY Guo - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The self-consistent proton–neutron quasiparticle random phase approximation approach is
employed to calculate β-decay half-lives of neutron-rich even–even nuclei with $8\leqslant …