Rotating Nuclei in the Relativistic Mean Field Theory

The development of self-consistent microscopic many-body theories aiming at the description of low-energy nuclear phenomena provides the necessary theoretical tools for an exploration of the nuclear chart into known and unknown regions. As discussed throughout this Workshop, the relativistic mean field (RMF) theory is one of them. It has been very successful in the investigation of different aspects of the many-body problem in nuclear physics [1], as for example the properties of rotating nuclei. Initiated by the Munich group the cranked relativistic mean field (CRMF) theory [2, 3, 4, 5], in which pairing is neglected, and cranked relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov (CRHB) theory [6, 7] have been developed as extensions of RMF theory for the description of such systems. As follows from studies of super-and normal-deformed rotational bands in different regions of the periodic table (see Refs. [5, 7, 8, 9, 10] and references quoted therein), they provide a very good description of the experimental data.