Relativistic mean-field description of the dynamics of giant resonances

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: nuclear compressibility from monopole resonances, regular and chaotic dynamics of isoscalar and isovector collective vibrations.

Comments: LaTeX, 10 pages, 5 figures, Invited Talk, Topical Conference on Giant resonances, Varenna, May 1998, to be published in Nucl. Phys. A