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The Nuclear Configuration Interations Method

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Basic Concepts in Nuclear Physics: Theory, Experiments and Applications (RÁBIDA 2018)

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This contribution consists of several connected parts: a brief introduction to nuclear physics and nuclear theory; the evidence for magic numbers in nuclear properties, and their interpretation in terms of the single-particle nuclear shell model; the construction of many-body wave functions for configuration mixing calculations; model space truncations of the many-body basis; types of configuration interaction codes and the Lanczos method; types of effective Hamiltonians for specific model spaces; and an introduction to the NuShellX code for calculating, wavefunctions, energies and observables for a given model space and Hamiltonian.

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    María V. Andrés

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    José A. Lay Valera

  4. Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

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Alex Brown, B. (2019). The Nuclear Configuration Interations Method. In: García-Ramos, JE., Andrés, M., Valera, J., Moro, A., Pérez-Bernal, F. (eds) Basic Concepts in Nuclear Physics: Theory, Experiments and Applications. RÁBIDA 2018. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 225. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22204-8_1

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