Nuclei are interesting quantum many-body systems and serve as a solid testing ground for our understanding of the strong interaction at low energies. It is an important and difficult problem to gain a complete understanding of how stable and radioactive nuclei arise from protons and neutrons whose interactions are dominated by the strong interaction.
The CENS theory group is primarily aiming at studying exotic nuclei using accurate and predictive nuclear theories. Thanks to the rapid development of high-performance supercomputers, we have much chance to conduct a rigorous study of nuclear structures and reactions using fundamental (or realistic) nuclear interactions based on QCD (or its effective theories).
Along with the theoretical activities, strong ties with experiments are also being pursued.
The research topics are:
- precise numerical quantum many-body calculations of nuclear matter and finite nuclei with realistic nuclear forces derived from effective field theories of QCD,
- density functional theory for finite nuclei
- nuclear physics uncertainties in r-process nucleosynthesis
- nuclear transport simulations for heavy ion collisions with exotic nuclear projectiles
- compound nuclear reactions based on the Langevin approach
- nuclear optical model
- beyond the mean field method based on quantum field theory for nuclear matter, finite nuclei and neutron stars
Center for Exotic Nuclear Studies