Lecturer: Dr. Shalom Shlomo
Affiliation: Cyclotron Institute,
Texas A&M University
Abstract:
We will first describe a method for
determining a modern energy density
functional (EDF), based on the effective
nucleon-nucleon Skyrme type interaction,
with an enhanced predictive power for
properties of nuclei and the equation of
state (EOS) of nuclear matter (NM), the
needed ingredient in the study of nuclei
and the structure and evolution of compact
astrophysical objects. The parameters and
some properties of the new and improved
EDF (named KDE0 and KDE0v1) will be
presented.
Next the results of HF-based RPA
calculations of properties of neutron-rich
nuclei and of multipole isoscalar and
isovector giant resonances (strength
distribution and centroid energies) will be
presented and their sensitivity to NM
properties, such as the incompressibility
coefficient, the symmetry energy density
and the effective mass, that are needed to
determine the next generation EDF, will be
discussed.
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