Coupled-cluster computations of atomic nuclei

G Hagen, T Papenbrock… - Reports on Progress …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past decade, coupled-cluster theory has seen a renaissance in nuclear physics, with
computations of neutron-rich and medium-mass nuclei. The method is efficient for nuclei …

Quantum phase transitions in the shapes of atomic nuclei

P Cejnar, J Jolie, RF Casten - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010 - APS
Signatures of criticality in the evolution of the nuclear ground-state shapes across the N× Z
plane are discussed. Attention is paid to specific data indicating sudden structural changes …

Evolution of shell structure in neutron-rich calcium isotopes

G Hagen, M Hjorth-Jensen, GR Jansen, R Machleidt… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
We employ interactions from chiral effective field theory and compute the binding energies
and low-lying excitations of calcium isotopes with the coupled-cluster method. Effects of …

Performance of the improved larger acceptance spectrometer: VAMOS++

M Rejmund, B Lecornu, A Navin, C Schmitt… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Measurements and ion optic calculations showed that the large momentum acceptance of
the VAMOS spectrometer at GANIL could be further increased from∼ 11% to∼ 30% by …

Quantum phase transitions and structural evolution in nuclei

RF Casten, EA McCutchan - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, the idea of quantum phase transitions has been applied to equilibrium shape
changes in finite atomic nuclei. An introduction to and discussion of this concept, both from …

Coulomb energy differences between high-spin states in isobaric multiplets

MA Bentley, SM Lenzi - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2007 - Elsevier
Spectroscopy of excited states of proton-rich nuclei has advanced considerably in recent
years. This is due to recent experimental developments in the identification of nuclei …

Trends in particle and nuclei identification techniques in nuclear physics experiments

A Badalà, M La Cognata, R Nania, M Osipenko… - La Rivista del Nuovo …, 2022 - Springer
Particle identification techniques are fundamental tools in nuclear physics experiments.
Discriminating particles or nuclei produced in nuclear interactions allows to better …

Three-nucleon forces and spectroscopy of neutron-rich calcium isotopes

JD Holt, J Menéndez, J Simonis, A Schwenk - Physical Review C, 2014 - APS
We study excited-state properties of neutron-rich calcium isotopes based on chiral two-and
three-nucleon interactions. We first discuss the details of our many-body framework …

Spectroscopy of neutron-rich Fe isotopes populated in the + reaction

S Lunardi, SM Lenzi, FD Vedova, E Farnea… - Physical Review C …, 2007 - APS
The neutron-rich Fe isotopes from A= 61 to 66 were studied through multinucleon transfer
reactions by bombarding a U 238 target with a 400 MeV Ni 64 beam. Unambiguous …

Analytic descriptions for transitional nuclei near the critical point

MA Caprio, F Iachello - Nuclear physics A, 2007 - Elsevier
Exact solutions of the Bohr Hamiltonian with a five-dimensional square well potential, in
isolation or coupled to a fermion by the five-dimensional spin–orbit interaction, are …