Paul BONCHE

Paul BONCHE

 

Paul Bonche worked as a theorist at the Department of Physics Theory (now IPhT, ex-SPhT at DSM-DAPNIA) of CEA-Saclay, from 1972 to 2006.

  

Since Paul Bonche was a founding member of the ESNT in 2004, we wanted to dedicate a special page of this site to his memory and activities, and to pay tribute to his research work in the field of nuclear structure.

 

            

 

PAUL BONCHE at SPhT with Roger Balian (right side) and Annie Gervois (left)
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Bulletin de la Société Française de Physique

Prix Jolie-Curie décerné à Paul Bonche en 1989

 

 

 

Amongst the many topics he was interested in, here is a selection of the works he developed:

+  Hartree-Fock Bogogliubov (HFB) methods with effective interactions, well adapted to the treatment of the nuclear structure problems of finite nuclei,

     in particular for exotic weakly-bound nuclei; applications to the phenomena of shape coexistence, super-deformation; description of nuclear rotations

     and of the large amplitude collective correlations;

+ Formalism and techniques for Time Dependent Hartree Fock (TDHF) calculations, which can be applied to nuclear reactions; 

+ Self-consistent mean-field methods;

+  Developments of new Skyrme interactions.

 

 

Paul Bonche was also involved in the understanding of the problems related to the nuclear power and energy production.

He was an active member (chief-editor) of the CESEN group (Cercle d’Etudes Sur l’Energie Nucléaire), established at Saclay in the 90ies, and composed by volunteer physicists willing to examine the questions of nuclear energy.

 

Reports of the works made by the group can be found in the book published by EDP Sciences in 2002.

"Le nucléaire expliqué par des physiciens "

P. Bonche (Dir.). Le nucléaire expliqué par des physiciens. EDP Sciences, 2002, EAN : 9782868835758. ⟨hal-00120526⟩

  https://hal.science/hal-00120526

A selected list of his publications  (click to see the page)

 

 

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