Licenciat thesis:

Title:
Nuclear masses and rotational bands at high angular momenta

Abstract:
This thesis deals with the description of the many-body physics of the atomic nucleus. We present results of calculations for the observed rotational bands in  ⁸⁶Nb and  ⁵⁸Ni using the the cranked Nilsson-Strutinsky model which is based on a deformed and rotating mean-field potential. Mean field methods to calculate the nuclear mass are also extended into the high-spin regime to calculate the nuclear binding energy as a function of proton number, neutron number and angular momentum. Comparing the trend as a function of mass number for a selection of high-spin states, a similar agreement between theory and experiment is obtained as for ground state masses.

Supervisors:
Ingemar Ragnarsson, Sven Åberg and Ragnar Bengtsson

Opponent:
Anatoli Afanasjev
Department of physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame,
Indiana 46556