Dirac-Brueckner Hartree-Fock Approach: from Infinite Matter to Effective Lagrangians for Finite Systems

One of the open problems in nuclear structure is how to predict properties of finite nuclei from the knowledge of a bare nucleon-nucleon interaction of the meson-exchange type. We point out that a promising starting point consists in Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (DBHF) calculations us- ing realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions like the Bonn potentials, which are able to reproduce satisfactorily the properties of symmetric nuclear matter without the need for 3-body forces, as is necessary in non-relativistic BHF calculations. However, the DBHF formalism is still too com- plicated to be used directly for finite nuclei. We argue that a possible route is to define effective Lagrangians with density-dependent nucleon-meson coupling vertices, which can be used in the Relativistic Hartree (or Relativistic Mean Field (RMF)) or preferrably in the Relativistic Hartree- Fock (RHF) approach. The density-dependence is matched to the nuclear matter DBHF results. We review the present status of nuclear matter DBHF calculations and discuss the various schemes to construct the self-energy, which lead to differences in the predictions. We also discuss how effective Lagrangians have been constructed and are used in actual calculations. We point out that completely consistent calculations in this scheme still have to be performed.Comment: 16 pages, to be published in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, special issue

Étude du fond d’œil en fonction de l’âge dans le pseudoxanthome élastique chez 158 patients

PURPOSE: To study the prevalence of fundus anomalies among patients with pseudoxanthoma elasticum as a function of their age. MATERIAL AND METHODS: All patients have had a complete ophthalmologic examination in multidisciplinary consultation for PXE in a national reference center. RESULTS: Hundred and fifty-eight patients (60 men and 98 women aged from 10 to 90 years old, mean 45±17 years) were included in a cross-sectional retrospective study. All fundus pictures were retrospectively reviewed over 9 years. Peau d\u27orange (55.6 %), was the first fundus feature observed in younger patients and disappeared with age. Angioid streaks (100 %), appeared during the second decade of life: at first hypofluorescent and then hyperfluorescent after 40 years old. Crystalline bodies (54.1 %), optic nerve head drusen (19 %) and peripheral pigmentation (39.9 %) were found in the various age groups. Macular atrophy (33.5 %) could have resulted from subretinal neovascularization (40.8 %), pattern dystrophies (7.9 %) or subretinal fibrosis (5.3 %). The onset of neovascularization appeared during the fourth decade. DISCUSSION: Progressive centrifugal calcification of Bruch\u27s membrane is the cause of the many fundus features observed in PXE patients. CONCLUSION: Knowledge of the natural history of PXE can help the clinician explain and reassure patients about the evolving risks of ophthalmological involvement, particularly the fact that neovascular complications arise from the fourth decade

Halos and related structures

The halo structure originated in nuclear physics but is now encountered more widely. It appears in loosely bound, clustered systems where the spatial extension of the system is significantly larger than that of the binding potentials. A review is given on our current understanding of these structures, with an emphasis on how the structures evolve as more cluster components are added, and on the experimental situation concerning halo states in light nuclei.Comment: 27 pages, 3 figures, Contribution to Nobel Symposium 152 "Physics With Radioactive Beams

Direct mass measurements of 19B, 22C, 29F, 31Ne, 34Na and other light exotic nuclei

We report on direct time-of-flight based mass measurements of 16 light neutron-rich nuclei. These include the first determination of the masses of the Borromean drip-line nuclei $^{19}$B, $^{22}$C and $^{29}$F as well as that of $^{34}$Na. In addition, the most precise determinations to date for $^{23}$N and $^{31}$Ne are reported. Coupled with recent interaction cross-section measurements, the present results support the occurrence of a two-neutron halo in $^{22}$C, with a dominant $\nu2s_{1/2}^2$ configuration, and a single-neutron halo in $^{31}$Ne with the valence neutron occupying predominantly the 2$p_{3/2}$ orbital. Despite a very low two-neutron separation energy the development of a halo in $^{19}$B is hindered by the 1$d_{5/2}^2$ character of the valence neutrons.Comment: 5 page

Investigation of nuclear cluster phenomenology with the relativistic EDF approach

Relativistic energy density functionals (REDF) allowed to bring these last years a complementary understanding to the nuclear clustering phenomena. Three steps forwards are reported: i) localisation as a function of the nucleonic quantum numbers, indicating related cluster effects over the nuclear chart; ii) detailed comparisons with experimental data available on spectroscopy of light nuclei such as 20Ne and 12C and iii) investigation of pairing and quarteting effects within the REDF

Reorientation-effect measurement of the first 2+ state in 12C : Confirmation of oblate deformation

A Coulomb-excitation reorientation-effect measurement using the TIGRESS γ−ray spectrometer at the TRIUMF/ISAC II facility has permitted the determination of the 〈21 +‖E2ˆ‖21 +〉 diagonal matrix element in 12C from particle−γ coincidence data and state-of-the-art no-core shell model calculations of the nuclear polarizability. The nuclear polarizability for the ground and first-excited (21 +) states in 12C have been calculated using chiral NN N4LO500 and NN+3NF350 interactions, which show convergence and agreement with photo-absorption cross-section data. Predictions show a change in the nuclear polarizability with a substantial increase between the ground state and first excited 21 + state at 4.439 MeV. The polarizability of the 21 + state is introduced into the current and previous Coulomb-excitation reorientation-effect analyses of 12C. Spectroscopic quadrupole moments of QS(21 +)=+0.053(44) eb and QS(21 +)=+0.08(3) eb are determined, respectively, yielding a weighted average of QS(21 +)=+0.071(25) eb, in agreement with recent ab initio calculations. The present measurement confirms that the 21 + state of 12C is oblate and emphasizes the important role played by the nuclear polarizability in Coulomb-excitation studies of light nuclei

\ensuremath{\gamma}-ray spectroscopy of low-lying yrast and non-yrast states in neutron-rich 94,95,96Kr^{94,95,96}\mathrm{Kr}

International audienceWe report on γ-ray spectroscopy of low-lying excited states in the neutron-rich Kr94,95,96 isotopes measured as part of the “Shell Evolution And Search for Two-plus energies At RIBF” (SEASTAR) campaign at the RIKEN Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory. Excited yrast and non-yrast states were observed, and half-lives extracted via geant4 simulations. In Kr94,96 candidates for the 31− state were identified. For Kr95, the prompt SEASTAR data were combined with delayed spectroscopic data measured with the EURICA array to observe transitions on top of the known (7/2)+ isomer at a level energy of 195.5(3) keV. The comparison of the new experimental results with five-dimensional collective Hamiltonian (5DCH) and mapped interacting boson model (IBM) calculations, both using the Gogny D1M interaction, could suggest oblate-prolate shape coexistence already in Kr96

Localization of pairing correlations in nuclei within relativistic mean field models

International audienceWe analyze the localization properties of two-body correlations induced by pairing in the framework of relativistic mean field (RMF) models. The spatial properties of two-body correlations are studied for the pairing tensor in coordinate space and for the Cooper pair wave function. The calculations are performed both with Relativistic-Hatree-Bogoliubov (RHB) and RMF+Projected-BCS (PBCS) models and taking as examples the nuclei $^{66}$Ni, $^{124}$Sn and $^{200}$Pb. It is shown that the coherence length have the same pattern as in previous non-relativistic HFB calculations, i.e., it is maximum in the interior of the nucleus and drops to a minimum in the surface region. In the framework of RMF+PBCS we have also analysed, for the particular case of $^{120}$Sn, the dependence of the coherence length on the intensity of the pairing force. This analysis indicates that pairing is reducing the coherence length by about 25-30 $\%$ compared to the RMF limit

Pore-farming properties and anti-bacterial activity of proteins extraded from epidermal mucus of fish

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