Mark Caprio, University of Notre Dame
Rotation, deformation, and emergent dynamical symmetry in the nuclear many-body system from its ab initio description
Argonne Physics Division Colloquium - 20 Mar 2020
11:00 AM, Building 203 Auditorium

Ab initio nuclear theory provides a predictive and experimentally validated microscopic framework for quantitatively describing the nuclear many-body system, directly from the interactions of its constituent nucleons. With this foundation established, we may now look to ab initio nuclear theory as means for obtaining a fundamental understanding of emergent nuclear correlations and collective phenomena. In this seminar, we will see how ab initio calculations provide insight into the collective rotational excitation spectra of light nuclei, and we will examine the relevance of dynamical symmetry associated with the symplectic group Sp(3,R), and its SU(3) subgroup, as an organizing scheme for collective correlations in light nuclei.

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