Opportunities for fundamental physics research with radioactive molecules

G Arrowsmith-Kron… - Reports on Progress …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Molecules containing short-lived, radioactive nuclei are uniquely positioned to enable a
wide range of scientific discoveries in the areas of fundamental symmetries, astrophysics …

The quest for superheavy elements and the limit of the periodic table

OR Smits, CE Düllmann, P Indelicato… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The borders of the periodic table of the elements and of the chart of nuclides are not set in
stone. The desire to explore the properties of atoms and their nuclei in a regime of very large …

[HTML][HTML] The present and future of QCD

P Achenbach, D Adhikari, A Afanasev, F Afzal… - Nuclear Physics A, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract This White Paper presents an overview of the current status and future perspective
of QCD research, based on the community inputs and scientific conclusions from the 2022 …

Charge radii in covariant density functional theory: A global view

UC Perera, AV Afanasjev, P Ring - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
A systematic global investigation of differential charge radii has been performed within the
CDFT framework for the first time. Theoretical results obtained with conventional covariant …

Imaging the initial condition of heavy-ion collisions and nuclear structure across the nuclide chart

J Jia, G Giacalone, B Bally, JD Brandenburg… - Nuclear Science and …, 2024 - Springer
High-energy nuclear collisions encompass three key stages: the structure of the colliding
nuclei, informed by low-energy nuclear physics, the initial condition, leading to the formation …

Cluster decay half-lives of isotopes from the ground state and intrinsic excited state using the relativistic mean-field formalism within the preformed-cluster …

JT Majekodunmi, M Bhuyan, D Jain, K Anwar… - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Background: The cluster radioactivity from the neutron-deficient trans-tin region of the
nuclear landscape has given immediate attention in the nuclear structure studies. Recent …

Scaling approach to nuclear structure in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

J Jia, C Zhang - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
In high-energy heavy-ion collisions, the initial condition of the produced quark-gluon plasma
(QGP) and its evolution are sensitive to collective nuclear structure parameters describing …

Hot QCD white paper

M Arslandok, SA Bass, AA Baty, I Bautista… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Hot QCD physics studies the nuclear strong force under extreme temperature and densities.
Experimentally these conditions are achieved via high-energy collisions of heavy ions at the …

Pear-shaped atomic nuclei

PA Butler - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This review presents the current status of experimental evidence for the occurrence of
reflection-asymmetric or 'pear'shapes in atomic nuclei, which arises from the presence of …

Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mass models on a 3D mesh: effect of triaxial shape

G Scamps, S Goriely, E Olsen, M Bender… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
The modelling of nuclear reactions and radioactive decays in astrophysical or earth-based
conditions requires detailed knowledge of the masses of essentially all nuclei. Microscopic …