The aim of our research is to study the structure of exotic nuclei whose proton and neutron numbers are very different to those found in stable nuclei, and to study nuclei with extremely high angular momentum. In this way valuable information can be gathered on the description of the atomic nucleus using many-body quantum theory. Our knowledge on this theory is mainly obtained from nuclei close to the line of stability and extrapolations into the unknown regions of the nuclear chart often fail, partly due to the wrong choice of parameters, and partly for more fundamental reasons. Usually this research is carried out in collaboration with physicists from other UK Universities and from Europe and/or North America, with most of the Group's activities being transferred to overseas laboratories, especially in France, Finland, Germany and Switzerland.

The major themes of our research are listed below:

• Collective behaviour of exotic nuclei
  
  
• Nuclei at the extremes of angular momentum
  
  
• The limits of nuclear existence beyond the proton drip line
  
  
• Single-particle structure and correlations at extremes of isospin
  
  
• The heaviest elements we can make
  
  
• Symmetry energy and the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter
  
  

Here you can find current projects that we are involved in



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