Modern many-body techniques are opening the possibility to perform
computations of medium mass nuclei maintaining a direct link to `realistic'
interactions. At the same time, one faces the challenge of moving beyond the
prediction of binding energies and investigate the experimental richness of phenomena in exotic
isotopes.
Relevant issues include the change in nuclear correlations in the regime of
large proton-neutron asymmetry, the evolution of shell closures due to
long-range correlations and tensor interactions, exotic resonances in the
vicinity of the continuum, interactions with electroweak probes, and so
on.
Recent developments on nuclear forces and effective interaction will be
first discussed. Emphasis will be given to many-body methods that potentially
provide ab-initio techniques for medium mass nuclei and/or allow for systematic studies of correlations in
exotic isotopes.
Topics to be discussed include (but are not limited to):
- nuclear forces and effective interactions
- ab-initio methods for many-body systems
- correlations in nuclei
- spectral functions in finite nuclei and spectroscopic factors
- evolution of single-particle energies and spectral strength
- exotic nuclear resonances
- electroweak processes
- ...