Non-empirical pairing energy functional for nuclei

Résumé Abstract
I will discuss the first systematic finite-nuclei calculations performed using
the Energy Density Functional method and a non-empirical pairing functional
derived from basic nuclear interactions. The aim of such a work is two-fold
(i) improving on currently used empirical energy functionals that lack predictive
power away from known experimental data (ii) understand the microscopic processes
responsible for superfluidity in finite nuclei. Results of calculations performed
at lowest-order in the nuclear plus Coulomb two-nucleon interactions will be presented
and compared to experimental data. Doing so, neutron-neutron and proton-proton
pairing properties of finite nuclei will be characterized in a systematic and
microscopic way.

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