School description
Progress in microscopic approaches for solving the nuclear many-body problem for nuclear structure and reaction has been rapid in the last years with great advances in methods of treatment of the continuum coupling in nuclear structure and reaction applications. These methods which are important to describe weakly bound or unbound states in exotic nuclei should form a curriculum of all physicists which work now on their Ph.D. in nuclear theory and experiment.
The course aims at teaching modern theoretical approaches that are used in studies of weakly bound and unbound quantum many-body systems. The theoretical concepts which will be explained on examples of the atomic nucleus can be applied in any mesoscopic system. This course will be of interest to PhD students studying the physics of weakly bound or unbound nuclear states.
Duration of the course is 3 weeks with a typical attendance of 20-25 students. To accommodate Master’s students, in particular, those from local programs at the University of Caen, the first week will primarily feature introductory lectures that provide essential background knowledge.
Topics covered
- Phenomenology of nuclei as open quantum systems
- General properties of resonances
- Basic concepts of scattering theory
- Overview of nuclear decays and related processes
- Continuum in nuclear Density Functional Theory
- Real-energy continuum Shell Model
- Shell Model in the complex energy plane
- Unification of structure and reactions
- Time-dependent approaches
- Examples of continuum shell-model applications
- Uniform complex scaling method
- From few- to many-body resonances
- Near-threshold physics and low-energy universality
- Examples of continuum shell-model applications
Main lecturers
- Alexander Volya, Florida State University, USA
- Witek Nazarewicz, FRIB & Michigan State University, USA
- Kevin Fossez, Florida State University, USA
- Marek Płoszajczak, GANIL, France
Additional lecturers
- Simin Wang, Fudan University, China
- Kostas Kravvaris, LLNL, USA
Guest lecturers
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Teaching assistants:
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