Relativistic mean-field description of the dynamics of giant resonances

The relativistic mean-field theory provides a framework in which the nuclear many-body problem is described as a self-consistent system of nucleons and mesons. In the mean-field approximation, the self-consistent time evolution of the nuclear system describes the dynamics of collective motion: nuclear compressibility from monopole resonances, regular and chaotic dynamics of isoscalar and isovector collective vibrations. 1 The relativistic mean field model Relativistic mean-field (RMF) models have been successfully applied in calculations of nuclear matter and properties of finite nuclei throughout the periodic table. In the self-consistent mean-field approximation, detailed calculations have been performed for a variety of nuclear structure phenomena [1].