Welcome to the Nuclear Theory Group at UAM (NT@UAM) webpage! Our group is dedicated to improving the understanding of nuclear structure by means of microscopic theories. These models can be used to calculate nuclear properties - such as binding energies, radii, excitation energies, decay modes, and fission - that can be compared with experimental data and employed to understand the production of chemical elements in the Universe.

Our group is part of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and the Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Física Fundamental.

• August 2025: New grant awarded! The NT@UAM has been awarded a Proyecto de Conocimiento grant for the period September 2025 – October 2025. This project forms part of the coordinated initiative “NUclear STructure for Reactions and AstroPhysics (NUSTRAP)”, carried out in collaboration with the Nuclear Physics Group at the Universidad de Sevilla.

• July 2025: New paper published! The beyond-mean field study of quadrupole-hexadecapole coupling on rare earth nuclei has been published on EPJA. 

• June 2025: From June 19 to 20, Nicolas F. Schunck from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will visit our group to discuss advancements in fission. As part of his visit, he will give a talk on "Theory of Nuclear Fission" on June 19 at CSIC. 

• June 2025: Jaime Martínez-Larraz joined the theoretical nuclear astrophysics group at GSI as a postdoctoral researcher. Good luck, Jaime!

• May 2025: Colloquium! On May 22nd, Alfredo Poves will give a seminar at the Faculty of Geological Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid on "El Núcleo Atómico: Una visita guiada". 

• May 2025: Colloquium! On May 21st, Alfredo Poves will deliver a seminar at the Faculty of Physics of the Complutense University of Madrid titled "Radioactivity and Geology: A Round-Trip Journey."

• May 2025: PhD thesis defense! On May 19th, Jaime Martínez-Larraz successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Applied and formal studies with the Projected Generate Coordinate Method in Nuclear Physics". Congratulations, Jaime!

• April 2025: New paper published! The formalism of Pfaffian formulas for computing mean-field wave-functions overlaps has been published in Phys. Lett. B.

• April 2025: New paper published! The study of isospin symmetry breaking in 71Kr and 71Br has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett.

• April 2025: New paper published! The study of pairing correlations on fission has been published in Phys. Rev. C.

• March 2025: From March 17 to 21, Wouter Ryssens from the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at ULB will be visiting our group to discuss advancements on energy density functionals and fission. As part of his visit, he will give a talk on "Microscopic Models of Nuclear Structure at Scale" on March 19. 

• February 2025: New paper published! The study of deformation and collectivity in 208Pb has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett.

• February 2025: New paper published! The study of quadrupole-hexadecapole coupling in translead nuclei has been published in Phys. Rev. C.

• February 2025: New paper published! The study of quadrupole-hexadecapole correlations in neutron-rich samarium and gadolinium isotopes has been published in Phys. Rev. C.