The limits of the nuclear landscape

Jochen Erler, Noah Birge, Markus Kortelainen, Witold Nazarewicz (), Erik Olsen, Alexander M. Perhac and Mario Stoitsov
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Jochen Erler: University of Tennessee
Noah Birge: University of Tennessee
Markus Kortelainen: University of Tennessee
Witold Nazarewicz: University of Tennessee
Erik Olsen: University of Tennessee
Alexander M. Perhac: University of Tennessee
Mario Stoitsov: University of Tennessee

Nature, 2012, vol. 486, issue 7404, 509-512

Abstract: Nuclear density functional theory is used to calculate the uncertainty in the positions of the neutron and proton ‘drip lines’, and to estimate that there are around 7,000 bound nuclides containing between 2 and 120 protons.

Date: 2012
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