TY - JOUR
T1 - The limits of the nuclear landscape explored by the relativistic continuum Hartree–Bogoliubov theory
AU - Xia, X. W.
AU - Lim, Y.
AU - Zhao, P. W.
AU - Liang, H. Z.
AU - Qu, X. Y.
AU - Chen, Y.
AU - Liu, H.
AU - Zhang, L. F.
AU - Zhang, S. Q.
AU - Kim, Y.
AU - Meng, J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to express gratitude to A. V. Afanasjev for his helpful discussions and careful reading of the manuscript. The authorsacknowledge the fruitful discussions with L. S. Geng, J. N. Hu, Z. M. Niu, P. Ring, I. J. Shin, B. H. Sun, N. Wang, Z.-H. Zhang, and S.-G. Zhou. This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11335002, 11375015, 11461141002, 11621131001 and 11605163), the Chinese Major State 973 Program (Grant No. 2013CB834400), the Rare Isotope Science Project of Institute for Basic Science funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, the National Research Foundation of Korea (2013M7A1A1075764), and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contracts No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 (P.W.Z.).
Funding Information:
The authors would like to express gratitude to A. V. Afanasjev for his helpful discussions and careful reading of the manuscript. The authorsacknowledge the fruitful discussions with L. S. Geng, J. N. Hu, Z. M. Niu, P. Ring, I. J. Shin, B. H. Sun, N. Wang, Z.-H. Zhang, and S.-G. Zhou. This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11335002 , 11375015 , 11461141002 , 11621131001 and 11605163), the Chinese Major State 973 Program (Grant No. 2013CB834400 ), the Rare Isotope Science Project of Institute for Basic Science funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning , the National Research Foundation of Korea ( 2013M7A1A1075764 ), and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) , Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contracts No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 (P.W.Z.).
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PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - The ground-state properties of nuclei with 8⩽Z⩽120 from the proton drip line to the neutron drip line have been investigated using the spherical relativistic continuum Hartree–Bogoliubov (RCHB) theory with the relativistic density functional PC-PK1. With the effects of the continuum included, there are totally 9035 nuclei predicted to be bound, which largely extends the existing nuclear landscapes predicted with other methods. The calculated binding energies, separation energies, neutron and proton Fermi surfaces, root-mean-square (rms) radii of neutron, proton, matter, and charge distributions, ground-state spins and parities are tabulated. The extension of the nuclear landscape obtained with RCHB is discussed in detail, in particular for the neutron-rich side, in comparison with the relativistic mean field calculations without pairing correlations and also other predicted landscapes. It is found that the coupling between the bound states and the continuum due to the pairing correlations plays an essential role in extending the nuclear landscape. The systematics of the separation energies, radii, densities, potentials and pairing energies of the RCHB calculations are also discussed. In addition, the α-decay energies and proton emitters based on the RCHB calculations are investigated.
AB - The ground-state properties of nuclei with 8⩽Z⩽120 from the proton drip line to the neutron drip line have been investigated using the spherical relativistic continuum Hartree–Bogoliubov (RCHB) theory with the relativistic density functional PC-PK1. With the effects of the continuum included, there are totally 9035 nuclei predicted to be bound, which largely extends the existing nuclear landscapes predicted with other methods. The calculated binding energies, separation energies, neutron and proton Fermi surfaces, root-mean-square (rms) radii of neutron, proton, matter, and charge distributions, ground-state spins and parities are tabulated. The extension of the nuclear landscape obtained with RCHB is discussed in detail, in particular for the neutron-rich side, in comparison with the relativistic mean field calculations without pairing correlations and also other predicted landscapes. It is found that the coupling between the bound states and the continuum due to the pairing correlations plays an essential role in extending the nuclear landscape. The systematics of the separation energies, radii, densities, potentials and pairing energies of the RCHB calculations are also discussed. In addition, the α-decay energies and proton emitters based on the RCHB calculations are investigated.
KW - Continuum effects
KW - Density functional PC-PK1
KW - Drip line
KW - Mass table
KW - Pairing correlations
KW - Relativistic continuum Hartree-Bogoliubov theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85032984342&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.adt.2017.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.adt.2017.09.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85032984342
SN - 0092-640X
VL - 121-122
SP - 1
EP - 215
JO - Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables
JF - Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables
ER -