EXOTIC MATTER AT THE LOW DENSITY LIMIT: EXPLORING BOUND AND CONTINUUM STRUCTURES OF BORROMEAN HALO NUCLEI

摘要

Studies of lighter dripline nuclei have revealed dramatic deviations from the matter distribution of ordinary stable nuclei and from shell model ordering. New stability patterns have been discovered, such as halo nuclei with co-existence of normal and low-density nucleonic matter, those of the Borromean nuclei being the most outstanding. Borromean nuclei provide the focus of these lectures, and also ongoing research on the halo continua.