Speaker
Prof.
Nils Paar
(University of Zagreb)
Description
In this lecture an overview will be given on the relativistic nuclear energy density functional, and its applications in modeling nuclear properties and weak interaction processes involving nuclei of relevance for astrophysics. In the first step, the formalism of the theory framework will be introduced, and the strategies to constrain the functional will be discussed. In the second part the applications in modeling nuclear ground state properties, collective excitations, beta decay and electron capture rates, and neutrino-nucleus reactions will be addressed. Astrophysically relevant properties of nuclear matter will be introduced, including strategies to constrain the nuclear symmetry energy from experimental data on finite nuclei, and relations to the neutron star properties.
Primary author
Prof.
Nils Paar
(University of Zagreb)
