COVARIANT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY FOR COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS IN NUCLEI FAR FROM STABILITY

Abstract

Modern methods for the description of the nuclear many-body system use the concepts of density functional theory (DFT) and of effective field theory (EFT). Relativistic Hartree Bogoliubov (RHB) theory is a covariant version of this method, which takes into account Lorentz symmetry and pairing correlations in a fully self-consistent way. This theory has been used in the past for a very successful phenomenological description of ground state properties of nuclei all over the periodic table. Recently is also has been extended for the investigation of excited states. We discuss the calculation of rotational bands within cranked RHB-theory and recent investigations of vibrational excitations within the framework of relativistic Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation (QRPA).