Relativistic nuclear energy density functionals: Mean-field and beyond

T Nikšić, D Vretenar, P Ring - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2011 - Elsevier
Relativistic energy density functionals (EDF) have become a standard tool for nuclear
structure calculations, providing a complete and accurate, global description of nuclear …

Theoretical studies of pygmy resonances

EG Lanza, L Pellegri, A Vitturi, MV Andrés - Progress in Particle and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This review aims at giving a critical description of the theoretical researches conducted on
the low-lying dipole states traditionally denoted as Pygmy Dipole Resonances (PDR). A brief …

Complete Electric Dipole Response and the Neutron Skin in

A Tamii, I Poltoratska, P von Neumann-Cosel, Y Fujita… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
A benchmark experiment on Pb 208 shows that polarized proton inelastic scattering at very
forward angles including 0° is a powerful tool for high-resolution studies of electric dipole (E …

Nuclear energy density optimization: Large deformations

M Kortelainen, J McDonnell, W Nazarewicz… - Physical Review C …, 2012 - APS
A new Skyrme-like energy density suitable for studies of strongly elongated nuclei was
determined in the framework of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory using the recently …

Towards an ab initio covariant density functional theory for nuclear structure

S Shen, H Liang, WH Long, J Meng, P Ring - Progress in Particle and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nuclear structure models built from phenomenological mean fields, the effective nucleon–
nucleon interactions (or Lagrangians), and the realistic bare nucleon–nucleon interactions …

Beyond-mean-field approaches for nuclear neutrinoless double beta decay in the standard mechanism

JM Yao, J Meng, YF Niu, P Ring - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Nuclear weak decays provide important probes to fundamental symmetries in nature. A
precise description of these processes in atomic nuclei requires comprehensive knowledge …

Toward a unified description of isoscalar giant monopole resonances in a self-consistent quasiparticle-vibration coupling approach

ZZ Li, YF Niu, G Colò - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The nuclear incompressibility is a key parameter of the nuclear equation of state that can be
extracted from the measurements of the so-called “breathing mode” of finite nuclei. The most …

Relativistic quasiparticle time blocking approximation: Dipole response of open-shell nuclei

E Litvinova, P Ring, V Tselyaev - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2008 - APS
The self-consistent relativistic quasiparticle random-phase approximation (RQRPA) is
extended by the quasiparticle-phonon coupling (QPC) model using the quasiparticle time …

Toward ab initio density functional theory for nuclei

JE Drut, RJ Furnstahl, L Platter - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2010 - Elsevier
We survey approaches to non-relativistic density functional theory (DFT) for nuclei using
progress toward ab initio DFT for Coulomb systems as a guide. Ab initio DFT starts with a …

Dynamics of nuclear single-particle structure in covariant theory of particle-vibration coupling: From light to superheavy nuclei

EV Litvinova, AV Afanasjev - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2011 - APS
The impact of particle-vibration coupling and polarization effects due to deformation and
time-odd mean fields on single-particle spectra is studied systematically in doubly magic …