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In this article, the scientific life of D. Gogny is recounted by several collaborators. His strong involvement in researches related to various fields of physics (such as nuclear, atomic and plasma physics as well as electromagnetism) appears clearly, as well as the progresses made in the understanding of fundamental physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A time-dependent microscopic approach of the fission process based on the constrained HFB approach with the Gogny force and the Hill and Wheeler configuration mixing method is described. Recent results concerning fragment distributions (mass, kinetic and deformation energies) and other fragment observables in 238U obtained with such an approach are presented and discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Applying a variational multiparticle-multihole mixing method whose purpose is to include correlations beyond mean field in an unified way without particle number and Pauli violations, we investigate ground state properties of 22O nucleus, in the case of pairing-type correlations. The same interaction is used for the mean field and the residual part of the hamiltonian, namely, the density-dependent D1S Gogny force. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Theoretical results for giant resonances in the three doubly magic exotic nuclei 78Ni, 100Sn and 132Sn are obtained from Hartree-Fock (HF) plus Random Phase Approximation (RPA) calculations using the D1S parameterization of the Gogny two-body effective interaction. Special attention is paid to full consistency between the HF field and the RPA particle-hole residual interaction. The results for the exotic nuclei, on average, appear similar to those of stable ones, especially for quadrupole and octupole states. More exotic systems have to be studied in order to confirm such a trend. The low energy of the monopole resonance in 78Ni suggests that the compression modulus in this neutron-rich nucleus is lower than the one of stable ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution summarizes the predictions obtained in the domain of superheavy nuclei from self-consistent microscopic calculations employing the Gogny force. Results concerning shell gaps, fission barriers and stability against alpha-decay are recalled. Recent work involving α-decay chains in odd nuclides is also presented and discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The energies and characteristics of giant resonances obtained from HF+RPA calculations with the Gogny force are derived in three doubly magic exotic nuclei. The results show a lowering of the monopole resonance energy compared to systematic values in stable nuclei, in particular in [sup 78]Ni. The Isovector Giant Dipole Resonance (IVGDR) in the two tin isotopes appears splitted into two major peaks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A dynamical approach to the neutron-induced fission of 255,257Fm isotopes based on the time-dependent generator-coordinate method is applied. As the generating functions the eigensolutions of the constrained Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov method with the effective D1S Gogny force are used. The here presented collective-dynamics calculations in the two-dimensional collective space described by quadrupole and octupole moments allow to determine the fragment mass distributions of those two Fm isotopes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two-dimensional Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) calculations have been performed from spherical shapes to large deformations with constraints on axial quadrupole and octupole deformations in 238U, 256–260Fm and 226Th actinides. Scission configurations have then been identified in this subspace of collective coordinates and many nuclear properties of the nascent fragments have been derived, such as deformation, deformation energy or prompt neutron multiplicity. The HFB states have then served as basis states for time-dependent collective calculations based on the Time-Dependent Generator Coordinate Method and the Gaussian Overlap Approximation to derive fission fragment yields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most of this paper consists of the derivation of general beam-referenced stage-two spin-correlation functions for the analysis of top-antitop pair production at the Tevatron, at the Large Hadron Collider, and/or at an International Linear Collider. However, for the charged-lepton plus jets reaction $q \bar{q} \rightarrow t \bar{t} \rightarrow (W^ + b) (W^- \bar{b} ) \rightarrow (l^{ + } \nu b ) (W^- \bar{b} )$ , there is a simple three-angle spin-correlation function for the determination of the relative sign of or for the measurement of a possible non-trivial phase between the two dominant λ b=-1/2 helicity amplitudes for the t → W + b decay mode. For the CP-conjugate case, there is an analogous function and tests for $\bar{t} \rightarrow W^{-} \bar{b}$ decay. These results make use of W-boson longitudinal-transverse interference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]