Nuclear Structure, Nuclear Astrophysics and Mesoscopic Physics

我们提出的研究涉及广泛的科学问题，包括：核稳定性的极限是什么？ 宇宙的化学演化是如何进行的？ 在相互作用的多体系统中，自组织的方式是什么？ 核的性质是如何从核子-核子相互作用中显现出来的？ 在量子介观系统中，秩序如何与混沌和复杂性共存？ 该计划将对核理论、核天体物理和介观物理的发展产生重要影响。许多项目与国家超导回旋加速器实验室（NSCL）和其他实验室的实验计划有关。这些项目也与核天体物理学联合研究所密切合作，研究课题包括：㈠开发新的分析和计算工具，用于描述核结构，特别是远不稳定核和重核的结构;（二）详细审议特定的核现象和核过程，阐明在实验进入未开发领域时遇到的新特点不稳定的核;对具有天体物理学意义的核过程的结构和动力学方面进行计算和建模;对开放和边缘稳定的介观系统中的结构和反应进行统一描述，包括核反应、电导波动和量子输运;对作为介观系统的核进行研究，包括多体量子混沌及其与集体和规则特征的共存。

Our proposed research relates to broad questions in science including: What are the limits of nuclear stability? How did the chemical evolution of the Universe proceed? What are the ways of self-organization in interacting many-body systems? How do the nuclear properties emerge from the underlying nucleon-nucleon interactions? How does order coexist with chaos and complexity in quantum mesoscopic systems? The suggested program is expected to have appreciable impact on developments in the field of nuclear theory, nuclear astrophysics and the general field of mesoscopic physics. Many of the projects are connected to the experimental programs at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) and other laboratories. Projects are also closely coupled with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA).Research topics include: (i) development of new analytical and computational tools for the description of nuclear structure, especially for the nuclei far from stability and for heavy nuclei; (ii) detailed consideration of specific nuclear phenomena and nuclear processes that shed light on the new features encountered with experimental advances into virgin territory of unstable nuclei; (iii) calculations and modeling of structural and dynamical aspects of nuclear processes of astrophysical interest; (iv) development of the unified description of structure and reactions in open and marginally stable mesoscopic systems, including nuclear reactions, conductance fluctuations and quantum transport; (iv) studies of the nucleus as a mesoscopic system, including many-body quantum chaos and its coexistence with collective and regular features.