Time-dependent relativistic mean-field theory

Abstract

The relativistic mean-field theory provides a framework in which the nuclear many-body problem is described as a self-consistent system of nucleons and mesons. In the mean-field approximation, the self-consistent time evolution of the nuclear system describes the dynamics of collective motion: double giant resonances, nuclear compressibility from monopole resonances, regular and chaotic dynamics of isoscalar and isovector collective vibrations.

Comments: 9 Pages, LaTex, 9 ps figures, Invited talk at the International Conference on Nuclear Physics and Related Areas, Thessaloniki 1997, to appear in the conference proceedings