Pairing in Nuclei: Exact Solutions

Abstract

Pairing plays an essential role in describing nuclear spectra and attempts to describe it has a long history in nuclear physics. Many theoretical tools were developed to treat the pairing problem either exactly or at various levels of approximation. In this contribution to the proceedings of a conference honoring the career of Taka Otsuka, recent developments in the exact solutions of the pairing problem are described.

Comments: 6 pages, Proceedings of Ito International Research Center (IIRC) symposium "Perspectives of the physics of nuclear structure", November 2017