EURORIB'15

Recent results have shown that neutron-rich nuclei become increasingly sensitive to three-body forces, which are at the forefront of theoretical developments based on effective field theories of quantum chromodynamics. This includes the formation of shell structure, the spectroscopy of exotic nuclei, and the location of the neutron dripline. Nuclear forces also constrain the properties of...

The spectroscopy of very neutron-rich nuclei offers unique information on the shell structure evolution with isospin. New phenomena such as Borromean nuclei and halos have been discovered. The Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory of RIKEN is today leader in producing neutron-rich nuclei. A new device called MINOS has been built recently at CEA Saclay to maximize the luminosity for hydrogen-induced...

The open-shell nuclei with Z>50 and N<82 are known to have some of the largest ground-state deformations in the nuclear chart. The shapes of the nuclei in this region are expected to be prolate, except for a small island of nuclei with Z>62 and N≈78, which are predicted to be oblate. Nuclei near 140Sm are therefore expected to be located in a transitional region between deformed and spherical...

G. Duchêne1, F. Didierjean1, D. Verney2, G. de Angelis3, C. Fransen4, R. Lozeva1, J. Litzinger4, A. Dewald4, M. Niikura2,+, D. Bazzacco5, E. Farnea5, S. Aydin5, A. Bracco6, S. Bottoni6, L. Corradi3, F. Crespi6, E. Ellinger4, E. Fioretto3, S. Franchoo2, A. Goasduff1,++, A. Gottardo5,+++, L. Grocutt7, M. Hackstein4, F. Ibrahim2, K. Kolos2,*, S. Leoni6, S. Lenzi5, S. Lunardi5, R. Menegazzo5, D....