Physics of exotic nuclei

Y Ye, X Yang, H Sakurai, B Hu - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

Nuclear mass table in deformed relativistic Hartree–Bogoliubov theory in continuum, I: Even–even nuclei

K Zhang, MK Cheoun, YB Choi, PS Chong… - Atomic Data and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ground-state properties of even–even nuclei with 8≤ Z≤ 120 from the proton drip line to the
neutron drip line have been investigated using the deformed relativistic Hartree–Bogoliubov …

[HTML][HTML] Missed prediction of the neutron halo in 37Mg

KY Zhang, SQ Yang, JL An, SS Zhang… - Physics Letters B, 2023 - Elsevier
Halo phenomena have long been an important frontier in both experimental and theoretical
nuclear physics. 37 Mg was identified as a halo nucleus in 2014 and remains the heaviest …

Collapse of the shell closure in the newly discovered nucleus and the development of deformed halos towards the neutron dripline

KY Zhang, P Papakonstantinou, MH Mun, Y Kim, H Yan… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
Halos and changes of nuclear magicities have been extensively investigated in exotic nuclei
during past decades. The newly discovered Na 39 with the neutron number N= 28 provides …

A unified description of the halo nucleus Mg from microscopic structure to reaction observables

JL An, KY Zhang, Q Lu, SY Zhong, SS Zhang - Physics Letters B, 2023 - repo.scoap3.org
Based on the structure input directly from the deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory
in continuum (DRHBc), we fully study reaction observables to search for halo evidence of 37 …

Spherical, Axial, and Triaxial Symmetries in the Study of Halo Nuclei with Covariant Density Functional Theory

Y Xiang, Q Luo, S Yang, K Zhang - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
The halo phenomenon in exotic nuclei has long been an important frontier in nuclear
physics research since its discovery in 1985. In parallel with the experimental progress in …

Deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum with a point-coupling functional. II. Examples of odd Nd isotopes

C Pan, MK Cheoun, YB Choi, J Dong, X Du, XH Fan… - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Background: One fascinating frontier in nuclear physics is the study of exotic nuclei. The
deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum (DRHBc), which …

Prolate-shape dominance in atomic nuclei within the deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum

P Guo, C Pan, YC Zhao, XK Du, SQ Zhang - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
The dominance of prolate over oblate ground-state deformations has been a well-known
empirical fact. With the state-of-the-art deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in …

Predictive power for superheavy nuclear mass and possible stability beyond the neutron drip line in deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum

K Zhang, X He, J Meng, C Pan, C Shen, C Wang… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
The predictive power of the deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum
(DRHBc) for nuclear mass is examined in the superheavy region, 102≤ Z≤ 120. The …

PUMA, antiProton unstable matter annihilation: PUMA collaboration

T Aumann, W Bartmann, O Boine-Frankenheim… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract PUMA, antiProton Unstable Matter Annihilation, is a nuclear-physics experiment at
CERN aiming at probing the surface properties of stable and rare isotopes by use of low …