Gogny HFB prediction of nuclear structure properties

Large scale mean field calculations from proton to neutron drip lines have been performed using the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov method based on the Gogny nucleon-nucleon effective interaction. This extensive study has shown the ability of the method to reproduce bulk nuclear structure data available experimentally. This includes nuclear masses, radii, matter densities, deformations, moment of inertia as well as collective mode (low energy and giant resonances). In particular, the first mass table based on a Gogny-Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov calculation including an explicit and coherent account of all the quadrupole correlation energies is presented. The rms deviation with respect to essentially all the available mass data is 798 keV. Nearly 8000 nuclei have been studied under the axial symmetry hypothesis and going beyond the mean-field approach. © 2011 American Institute of Physics.SCOPUS: cp.p