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EPSRC Reference:	GR/N15665/01
Title:	UMIST-MANCHESTER NUCLEAR THEORY PROGRAMME: MICROSCOPIC STUDIES OF NUCLEI AND HADRONIC MATTER
Principal Investigator:	Bishop, Professor RF
Other Investigators:	Birse, Professor MC Walet, Professor NR
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Department:	Physics
Organisation:	UMIST
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 January 2001	Ends:	31 December 2002	Value (£):	15,230
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Nuclear Structure
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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To areas of active interest in nuclear physics are the properties of exotic nuclei at relatively low energies and the interplay between the substructure of hadrons and nuclear physics at higher scales. We intent to apply our expertise in a range of microscopic approaches to these two areas. The group at UMIST has pioneered the use of coupled-cluster and large-amplitude collection motion techniques in several areas of physics, whereas the group at Manchester has substantial expertise with field-theoretic approaches to nuclear physics. We shall exploit this unique combination of skills to address, amongst others, problems of current experimental interest. These include the study of properties of nuclei, including halo nuclei, heavier drip-line nuclei and superdeformed nuclei. We shall also look at the effect of chiral symmetry on hadron properties, the NN force and nuclei. The latter problem will help to address the experimental results on the properties of hadrons in matter. With the advent of new heavy-ion facilities a better understanding of high-density phases of hadronic matter has become imperative. We shall study these phase in various regimes. Finally, we shall continue our investigations into applications of coupled-cluster methods in a translationally invariant treatment of light nuclei, calculations in configuration space in heavier nuclei, and application to lattice field theories.
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