An overview of the scientific contribution of Andrea Vitturi to Nuclear Physics (being an account of the recent TNP19 meeting held in Padova)

Abstract

We give an account of the main achievements of the scientific career of Andrea Vitturi so far, that have recently been discussed during the workshop "Theoretical Nuclear Physics in Padova" on the occasion of his retirement from full professor at the University of Padova. He has oftentimes been the driving force behind numerous contributions to nuclear structure and nuclear reactions that are here reviewed: giant resonances, pairing correlations, collective modes, algebraic models, inelastic excitations, electromagnetic response, break-up and transfer reactions, coupled-channel formalism, clustering, subbarrier fusion processes, etc. Among these topics several inspirational works and ideas can be found that we would like to highlight.

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• Mean-field description of ground-state properties of drip-line nuclei: Pairing and continuum effects
• Exotic modes of excitation in atomic nuclei far from stability
• Radioactive decays at limits of nuclear stability
• Subbarrier fusion reactions and many-particle quantum tunneling
• Gamow Shell Model Description of Neutron-Rich Nuclei
• Effect of continuum couplings in fusion of halo ${}^{11}$Be on ${}^{208}$Pb around the Coulomb barrier
• Evidence for Triangular D_3h Symmetry in 12C
• Role of break-up processes in fusion enhancement of drip-line nuclei at energies below the Coulomb barrier
• Pairing correlations in nuclei on the neutron-drip line
• Solutions of the Bohr hamiltonian, a compendium
• Pairing and continuum effects in nuclei close to the drip line
• Analytically solvable potentials for $\gamma$-unstable nuclei
• Sequence of Potentials Lying Between the U(5) and X(5) Symmetries
• Sequence of Potentials Interpolating between the U(5) and E(5) Symmetries
• Effect of large neutron excess on the dipole response in the region of the Giant Dipole Resonance
• Cooper pair transfer in nuclei
• The U(5)-O(6) transition in the Interacting Boson Model and the E(5) critical point symmetry
• New analytic solutions of the collective Bohr hamiltonian for a beta-soft, gamma-soft axial rotor
• Population of dipole states via isoscalar probes: the splitting of pygmy dipole resonance in ${}^{124}$Sn}
• The electron screening puzzle and nuclear clustering
• Critical point symmetries in boson-fermion systems. The case of shape transition in odd nuclei in a multi-orbit model
• Competition between direct and sequential two-neutron transfers in the ${}^{18}$O + ${}^{28}$Si collision at 84 MeV
• Collective transition densities in neutron-rich nuclei
• Role of diproton correlation in two-proton emission decay of the ${}^6$Be nucleus
• Electric multipole response of the halo nucleus ${}^6$He
• Coulomb breakup in a Transformed Harmonic Oscillator Basis
• Electric and magnetic response to the continuum for A=7 isobars in a dicluster model
• Two-neutron halo nuclei in one dimension: dineutron correlation and breakup reaction
• Electromagnetic response and break-up of light weakly-bound nuclei in a dicluster model
• Electromagnetic selection rules in the triangular alpha-cluster model of 12C
• Intrinsic structure of two-phonon states in the interacting boson model
• Two-neutron correlations in a Borromean ${}^{20}\mathrm{C}+n+n$ system: Sensitivity of unbound subsystems
• Enhanced subbarrier fusion for proton halo nuclei
• Coupling of Dipole Mode to gamma-unstable Quadrupole Oscillations
• Supplemental note for "Two-fermion emission from spin-singlet and triplet resonances in one dimension"
• Nuclear fusion as a probe for octupole deformation in ${}^{224}$Ra
• On the Excitation of Double Giant Resonances in Heavy Ion Reactions
• Study of Giant Pairing Vibrations with neutron-rich nuclei
• Continuum discretized BCS approach for weakly bound nuclei
• The algebraic molecular model in ${}^{12}$C and its application to the $\alpha$+${}^{12}$C scattering: from densities and transition densities to optical potentials and nuclear formfactors
• Analytical approach to electromagnetic processes in loosely bound nuclei: application to 8B