Abstract:

In years to come, we shall see substantial progress in our understanding of nuclear structure - a rich and many-faceted field. An important element in this task will be to extend the study of nuclei into new domains. The journey to ``the limits" of isospin, angular momentum, and mass and charge is a quest for new and unexpected phenomena which await us in uncharted territories. What is extremely important from a theoretical point of view is that the new data are also expected to bring qualitatively new information about the effective nucleon-nucleon interaction and hence about the fundamental properties of the nucleonic many-body system. The main objective of this presentation is to discuss some of the challenges and opportunities for nuclear structure research with radioactive nuclear beams.

Mean-Field and Pairing Properties of Exotic Nuclei: Exploring the Nuclear Landscape

Jacek DOBACZEWSKI¹ and Witold NAZAREWICZ^1-3
1Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University, ul. Hoza 69,
PL-00681, Warsaw, Poland
²Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
³Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831