Toward a Global Microscopic Theory for Nuclear Structure: Mean Field Plus Random Phase Approximation Vs. Shell Model

Our understanding of nuclear structure is built upon mean-field theories such as Hartree-Fock and time-dependent Hartree-Fock. The small-amplitude limit of the latter is the random phase approximation (RPA), which is widely used to model giant resonances in nuclei. Despite this popularity, RPA has b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stetcu, Ionel
Other Authors: Calvin Johnson
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2003
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0702103-154150/