About This Server

This server is part of the UNEDF project. A detailed description of project goals can be found here. A brief extract from that page follows:

There are approximately 3,000 known nuclei, most of them produced in the laboratory. It is estimated that additionally up to approximately 6,000 nuclei could in principle still be created and studied in the foreseeable future. An understanding of the properties of these elements is crucial for a complete nuclear theory, for element formation, for properties of stars, and for present and future energy and defense applications. We plan a comprehensive study of all these nuclei, based on the most accurate knowledge of the strong nuclear interaction, the most reliable theoretical approaches, and a massive use of the computer power available at this moment in time, with the view of scaling to the petaflop computers to become available in the near future. Until recently such an undertaking was hard to imagine, and even at the present time such an ambitious endeavor would be far beyond what a single researcher or a traditional research group could carry out. This project will involve theoretical physicists, computer scientists, and students from universities and national laboratories. Our long-term vision is to arrive at a comprehensive and unified description of nuclei and their reactions, grounded in the fundamental interactions between the constituent nucleons. We seek to replace current phenomenological models of nuclear structure and reactions with a well-founded microscopic theory that delivers maximum predictive power with well-quantified uncertainties.

Credits

The following individuals and organizations have been instrumental in this project.