Quantum nuclear many-body dynamics and related aspects

GANIL Guest House - 14h00

This talk is devoted to a compilation of recent advances in the
nuclear many-body dynamical problem. The building block of any microscopic model
is the nuclear mean-field theory, designed to provide proper description of one-body observables.
Important aspects related to mean-field and its relation to observables
evolutions are presented. Currently applied nuclear mean-field theories are formulated within a
Density Functional Theory (DFT) framework, the so-called Energy Density Functional (EDF) theory.
In addition, beyond mean-field approaches, that are introduced to account for direct
nucleon-nucleon collisions, pairing and/or configuration mixing, are strongly guided
by the theory of Open Quantum Systems (OQS). Both DFT and OQS are interdisciplinary concepts
that play a key role in the nuclear many-body problem and are discussed in this review.
Beyond mean-field theories are illustrated to fusion, transfer and break-up reactions.
Finally, more phenomenological approaches dedicated to multifragmentation reactions and low energy
spallation reactions are introduced. 

presentation (pdf)