Structure models: from shell model to ab initio methods

TL;DR

This paper reviews the evolution of nuclear structure models from the traditional shell model to modern ab initio methods, highlighting recent theoretical results and their comparison with experimental data.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear structure modeling, emphasizing recent advances and insights into three-body forces and continuum properties.

Findings

Recent ab initio calculations agree with experimental data on exotic nuclei

Insights into three-body forces from theoretical models

Understanding of continuum effects in nuclear reactions

Abstract

A brief review of models to describe nuclear structure and reactions properties is presented, starting from the historical shell model picture and encompassing modern ab initio approaches. A selection of recent theoretical results on observables for exotic light and medium-mass nuclei is shown. Emphasis is given to the comparison with experiment and to what can be learned about three-body forces and continuum properties.