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Ab initio calculations of nuclear charge radii across and beyond Sn: Putting chiral EFT nuclear interactions to the test
Pepijn Demol, Urban Vernik, Thomas Duguet +1
Charge radii are investigated along the Tin isotopic chain via ab initio Bogoliubov coupled cluster calculations at the singles and doubles level. In addition to the reproduction o…
Analysis of capture in the Li reaction
Ergash M. Tursunov, Daniel Baye
An effective operator is exactly equivalent to the long-wavelength form of the operator in transition matrix elements. It allows us to analytically and numerically analyze the…
Modeling Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays propagation using the input from Configuration Interaction Shell Model
O. Le Noan, E. Khan, S. Goriely +1
The dipole response of a nuclear system, characterized by its photon strength function (PSF), is a key ingredient of many applications of nuclear structure, ranging from nuclear re…
From closed shells to open shells: Coupled-cluster calculations of atomic nuclei
F. Marino, F. Bonaiti, P. Demol +6
Coupled-cluster theory is a powerful tool for first-principles calculations of atomic nuclei, enabling accurate predictions of nuclear observables across the Segrè chart. While cou…
TENDL-astro: a new nuclear data set for astrophysics interest
D. Rochman, A. Koning, S. Goriely +1
In this work, we are presenting a new database of astrophysical interest, based on calculations performed with the nuclear reaction code TALYS. Four quantities are systematically c…
What to expect from microscopic nuclear modelling for k calculations ?
D. Rochman, A. Koning, S. Goriely +1
Comparisons between predicted and benchmark k values from criticality-safety systems are often used as metrics to estimate the quality of evaluated nuclear data librari…
The excited state of the -particle: a benchmark study
Pierre-Yves Duerinck, Arnoldas Deltuva, Jérémy Dohet-Eraly +5
A benchmark study is performed for the excited state of He. When the Coulomb interaction is switched off, the He nucleus exhibits a bound excited state in the vicinity of $…
Gapless superfluidity in neutron stars: Normal-fluid fraction
Valentin Allard, Nicolas Chamel
Our previous investigation within the time-dependent nuclear energy-density functional theory showed that the nuclear superfluids contained inside cold neutron stars could become g…
Neutron Star Inner Crust at Finite Temperatures: A Comparison Between Compressible Liquid Drop and Extended Thomas-Fermi Approaches
Guilherme Grams, Nikolai N. Shchechilin, Théau Diverrès +3
We investigate the effects of temperature on the properties of the inner crust of a non-accreting neutron star. To this aim, we employ two different treatments: the compressible li…
Electromagnetic moments in the Sn-Gd region determined within nuclear DFT
H. Wibowo, B. C. Backes, J. Dobaczewski +5
Within the nuclear DFT framework, employing the Skyrme UNEDF1 functional and incorporating pairing correlations, we determined the spectroscopic electric quadrupole and magnetic di…
Pressure and chemical potentials in the inner crust of a cold neutron star within Hartree-Fock and extended Thomas-Fermi methods
Nicolas Chamel, Nikolai N. Shchechilin, Andrey I. Chugunov
Self-consistent mean-field methods with Skyrme-type effective interactions and semiclassical approximations, such as the Thomas-Fermi approach and its extensions are particularly w…
On variational trial functions in the extended Thomas-Fermi method
A. Y. Potekhin, A. I. Chugunov, N. N. Shchechilin +1
Parametrized nucleon density distributions are widely employed for the calculation of the properties of atomic nuclei and dense inhomogeneous matter in compact stars within the Tho…
Role of neutron pairing with density-gradient dependence in the semi-microscopic treatment of the inner crust of neutron stars
Nicolas Chamel, John-Michael Pearson, Nikolay N. Shchechilin
Using the fourth-order extended Thomas-Fermi method with Strutinsky-integral shell and pairing corrections, we calculate the inner crust of neutron stars with the BSk31 functional,…
Two-center harmonic oscillator basis for Skyrme-DFT calculations (I): formalism and Proof of Principle
Adrián Sánchez-Fernández, Jacek Dobaczewski, Xuwei Sun +1
We present a new method to solve the nuclear density functional theory (DFT) equations using a two-center harmonic oscillator for Skyrme-like functionals, incorporating pairing and…
Gapless superfluidity in neutron stars: Thermal properties
Valentin Allard, Nicolas Chamel
The interior of mature neutron stars is expected to contain superfluid neutrons and superconducting protons. The influence of temperature and currents on superfluid properties is s…
Time-dependent nuclear energy-density functional theory toolkit for neutron star crust: Dynamics of a nucleus in a neutron superfluid
Daniel Pȩcak, Agata Zdanowicz, Nicolas Chamel +2
We present a new numerical tool designed to probe the dense layers of neutron star crusts. It is based on the time-dependent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory with generalized Skyrme…
Effects of dilute neutron matter on the neutron star crust equation of state
Guilherme Grams, Jerome Margueron
We develop a compressible liquid-drop model to describe the crust of neutron stars for which the role of the nuclear clusters, the neutron gas, and the electrons are clearly identi…
Benchmark of many-body approaches for magnetic dipole transition strength
M. Frosini, W. Ryssens, K. Sieja
The low-energy enhancement observed recently in the deexcitation gamma-ray strength functions, suggested to arise due to the magnetic dipole radiation, motivates theoretical effort…
Impact of choices for center-of-mass correction energy on the surface energy of Skyrme energy density functionals
Philippe Da Costa, Karim Bennaceur, Jacques Meyer +2
In the framework of nuclear energy density functional (EDF) methods, many nuclear phenomena can be related to the deformation of intrinsic states. Their accurate modeling relies on…
Evidence of Hexadecapole Deformation in Uranium-238 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Wouter Ryssens, Giuliano Giacalone, Björn Schenke +1
There is strong evidence of the failure of hydrodynamic simulations of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) to reproduce data on the elliptic flow of particles in relativistic collisions o…
Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mass models on a 3D mesh. IIb. Fission properties of BSkG2
Wouter Ryssens, Guillaume Scamps, Stephane Goriely +1
Large-scale models of nuclear structure are currently the only way to provide consistent datasets for the many properties of thousands of exotic nuclei that are required by nucleos…
Comprehensive test of nuclear level density models
Stephane Goriely, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Dennis Mücher
For the last two decades, experimental information on nuclear level densities for about 60 different nuclei has been obtained on the basis of the Oslo method. While each of these m…
Application of R-matrix and Lagrange-mesh methods to nuclear transfer reactions
Shubhchintak, P. Descouvemont
Background: Nuclear transfer reactions are a useful tool to study the structure of a nucleus. For reactions involving weekly bound nuclei, breakup effects can play significant role…
Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mass models on a 3D mesh: II. Time-reversal symmetry breaking
Wouter Ryssens, Guillaume Scamps, S. Goriely +1
Models based on nuclear energy density functionals can provide access to a multitude of observables for thousands of nuclei in a single framework with microscopic foundations. Such…