Eur. Phys. J. A (2016) 52: 336
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16336-2

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Nuclear reaction inputs based on effective interactions

¹ CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297, Arpajon, France
² Institut d’Astronomie et d’Astrophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP-226, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

^* e-mail: stephane.hilaire@cea.fr

Received: 1 June 2016
Accepted: 8 October 2016
Published online: 18 November 2016

Abstract

Extensive nuclear structure studies have been performed for decades using effective interactions as sole input. They have shown a remarkable ability to describe rather accurately many types of nuclear properties. In the early 2000s, a major effort has been engaged to produce nuclear reaction input data out of the Gogny interaction, in order to challenge its quality also with respect to nuclear reaction observables. The status of this project, well advanced today thanks to the use of modern computers as well as modern nuclear reaction codes, is reviewed and future developments are discussed.