Witold Nazarewicz
University of Tennessee/ORNL
Friday, September 8, 2006
4:00 pm in SPL 57
The nucleus: a quantum open many-body system
Abstract: Understanding nuclei is a quantum many-body problem of incredible richness and diversity and studies of nuclei address some of the great challenges that are common throughout modern science. Nuclear structure theory strives to build a unified and comprehensive microscopic framework in which bulk nuclear properties, nuclear excitations, and nuclear reactions can all be described. A new and exciting focus in this endeavor lies in the description of exotic and short lived nuclei. The extreme isospin of these nuclei, their weak binding, and presence of low-lying decay channels bring new phenomena to the fore which isolates and amplifies important features of the nuclear many-body problem.
This talk will review theoretical challenges in nuclear structure research, with an emphasis on the links with the physics of complex systems.
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