Nuclear structure in the Dirac-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approximation and the structure of light nuclei in an ab-initio Dirac model

• Grant number: 10/17854-4
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: February 14, 2011
• End date: February 13, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Nuclear Physics
• Principal Investigator: Brett Vern Carlson
• Grantee: Brett Vern Carlson
• Visiting researcher: Daisy Hirata
• Visiting researcher institution: Open University, England
• Host Institution: Divisão de Ciências Fundamentais (IEF). Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA). Ministério da Defesa (Brasil). São José dos Campos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 09/00069-5 - Few-body aspects of many-body physics, AP.TEM

Abstract

The goals of the project are to 1) conclude the development of a Dirac-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov code for the ground state of axially symmetric nuclei and develop a density-dependent effective interaction based on Dirac-Brueckner calculations in order to use the code to study nuclei at zero and finite temperature and 2) begin the study of light nuclei in the ab-initio shell model using a meson-exchange interaction between Dirac nucleons. (AU)