Self-consistent mean-field models for nuclear structure

M Bender, PH Heenen, PG Reinhard - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2003 - APS
The authors review the present status of self-consistent mean-field (SCMF) models for
describing nuclear structure and low-energy dynamics. These models are presented as …

The discovery of the heaviest elements

S Hofmann, G Münzenberg - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2000 - APS
The nuclear shell model predicts that the next doubly magic shell closure beyond 208 Pb is
at a proton number between Z= 114 and 126 and at a neutron number N= 184. The …

Relativistic continuum Hartree Bogoliubov theory for ground-state properties of exotic nuclei

J Meng, H Toki, SG Zhou, SQ Zhang, WH Long… - Progress in Particle and …, 2006 - Elsevier
The Relativistic Continuum Hartree–Bogoliubov (RCHB) theory, which properly takes into
account the pairing correlation and the coupling to (discretized) continuum via Bogoliubov …

Heaviest nuclei from 48Ca-induced reactions

Y Oganessian - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
After a brief introduction of the role of shell effects in determining the limiting nuclear
masses, the experimental investigation of the decay properties of the heaviest nuclei is …

Review of even element super-heavy nuclei and search for element 120

S Hofmann, S Heinz, R Mann, J Maurer… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
The reaction 54 Cr + 248 Cm was investigated at the velocity filter SHIP at GSI, Darmstadt,
with the intention to study production and decay properties of isotopes of element 120. Three …

Toward the Discovery of New Elements: Production of Livermorium () with

JM Gates, R Orford, D Rudolph, C Appleton… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The Pu 244 (Ti 50, xn) Lv 294-x reaction was investigated at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory's 88-Inch Cyclotron. The experiment was aimed at the production of a …

Shell structure of superheavy nuclei in self-consistent mean-field models

M Bender, K Rutz, PG Reinhard, JA Maruhn, W Greiner - Physical Review C, 1999 - APS
We study the extrapolation of nuclear shell structure to the region of superheavy nuclei in
self-consistent mean-field models—the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock approach and the relativistic …

A Hartree–Fock nuclear mass table

S Goriely, F Tondeur, JM Pearson - Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables, 2001 - Elsevier
We present the first complete nuclear mass table, HFBCS-1, to be based on the Hartree–
Fock–BCS method. The force used, MSk7, is a 10-parameter Skyrme force, along with a 4 …

Variations on a theme by Skyrme: A systematic study of adjustments of model parameters

P Klüpfel, PG Reinhard, TJ Bürvenich… - Physical Review C …, 2009 - APS
We present a survey of the phenomenological adjustment of the parameters of the Skyrme-
Hartree-Fock (SHF) model for a self-consistent description of nuclear structure and low …

The periodic table and the physics that drives it

P Schwerdtfeger, OR Smits, P Pyykkö - Nature reviews chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Mendeleev's introduction of the periodic table of elements is one of the most important
milestones in the history of chemistry, as it brought order into the known chemical and …