Study of the nuclear structure of some exotic nuclei using nonrelativistic and relativistic mean-field methods

Abstract

The nuclear shell model with the Skyrme–Hartree–Fock (SHF), as a nonrelativistic approach, and the Relativistic Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov (RHFB) methods have been used to study the nuclear structure of some exotic nuclei at the proton and neutron drip lines. Different Skyrme parametrizations, in particular SkM*, SkX, SkO, SLy4, Skxs25 and Z, have been used in the nonrelativistic region. In the relativistic region, the density-dependence meson-exchange models and density-dependence point-coupling models are used. Both methods are used to study ground state properties such as binding energy, mass radial density distribution and the corresponding root mean square (rms) mass radii. The fragmentation reaction cross-section is used as an important property to investigate the halo structure. Strong evidence for existence of a neutron halo in [Formula: see text]Li and [Formula: see text]Be and proton halo in [Formula: see text]Ne, [Formula: see text]Al and [Formula: see text]P are found using the SHF model and reaction cross-section. The ability of the SHF model to study the exotic structure with shell model occupation probability is confirmed.