The atomic nucleus is a quantum many-body system whose constituent nucleons (protons
and neutrons) are subject to complex nucleon-nucleon interactions that include spin-and …

The main purpose of the present manuscript is to review the structural evolution along the
isotonic and isotopic chains around the “traditional” magic numbers 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 and …

The monopole effect of the tensor force is presented, exhibiting how spherical single-particle
energies are shifted as protons or neutrons occupy certain orbits. An analytic relation for …

The theory of the nuclear energy-density functional is used to provide a unified and
thermodynamically consistent treatment of all regions of cold non-accreting neutron stars. In …

Novel simple properties of the monopole component of effective nucleon-nucleon
interactions are presented, leading to the so-called monopole-based universal interaction …

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 …

We perform a systematic study of the impact of the J 2 tensor term in the Skyrme energy
functional on properties of spherical nuclei. In the Skyrme energy functional, the tensor terms …

We review recent progress and motivate the need for further developments in nuclear optical
potentials that are widely used in the theoretical analysis of nucleon elastic scattering and …

The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of exotic structures and dynamics in
weakly bound unstable nuclei located in the rapidly expanding nuclear chart. Examples …

We show how shape transitions in the neutron-rich exotic Si and S isotopes occur in terms of
shell-model calculations with a newly constructed Hamiltonian based on V MU interaction …