Over the last decade, new developments in Similarity Renormalization Group techniques
and nuclear many-body methods have dramatically increased the capabilities of ab initio …

Background: The chart of the nuclides is limited by particle drip lines beyond which nuclear
stability to proton or neutron emission is lost. Predicting the range of particle-bound isotopes …

Protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus move in shells analogous to the electronic shell
structures of atoms. The nuclear shell structure varies as a result of changes in the nuclear …

We study the information content of nuclear masses from the perspective of global models of
nuclear binding energies. To this end, we employ a number of statistical methods and …

Predictions of nuclear properties far from measured data are inherently inaccurate because
of uncertainties in our knowledge of nuclear forces and in our treatment of quantum many …

In this thesis we investigate the performance of Bayesian inference and Bayesian model
averaging (BMA) applied to two nuclear mass models, the Duflo-Zuker 10 parameter model …