Structure of superheavy nuclei

Abstract

Properties of transactinide nuclei needed for the interpretation of spectroscopic data and for the extrapolation to the expected "island of stability" of superheavy nuclei are reviewed from a theorist's point of view in the framework of self-consistent mean-field models.

Comments: Accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, held at San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A., May 27 - June 1 2012