Speaker
Dr
Dario Vretenar
(University of Zagreb)
Description
Modern nuclear structure theory is rapidly evolving towards regions of
short-lived nuclei far from stability. The principal objective is to
build a consistent microscopic theoretical framework that will provide
a unified description of bulk properties, nuclear excitations and reactions.
Stringent constraints on the microscopic approach to nuclear dynamics,
effective nuclear interactions, and nuclear energy density functionals,
are obtained from studies of the structure and stability of exotic nuclei
with extreme isospin values, as well as extended asymmetric nucleonic matter.
Recent theoretical advances in the description of structure phenomena in
nuclei far from stability are reviewed: applications of the global shell
model approach and the self-consistent mean-field framework in the study
of the evolution of shell structure with isospin and the disappearance
of spherical magic numbers, the onset of deformation, shape transitions
and shape coexistence, the microscopic description of the evolution of
neutron skin and the low-energy multipole response in neutron-rich nuclei.
Primary author
Dr
Dario Vretenar
(University of Zagreb)
