Tensor interactions in mean-field approaches

Abstract

Basic properties of the nuclear tensor mean fields are reviewed, and their role in changing the shell structure and masses of nuclei is analyzed within the spherical Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov approach.

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures, Talk presented at the 3rd ANL/MSU/INT/JINA RIA Theory Workshop, Argonne, 4-7 April 2006, to be published in the World Scientific proceedings