Marcella Grasso

  • CNRS Senior Researcher (Director of Research DR), IJCLab Orsay

  • 'Chargé de Mission’ for Theory and Phenomenology for the IN2P3 Directorate

  • Coordinator of IN2P3 National Grant (Masterproject) ‘BRIDGES-EDF’ (bridging EDF and EFT)

  • Coordinator of the Task ‘Nuclear Interaction’, European Project JRA TheoS (ENSAR2)

Theoretical nuclear structure. Many-body techniques

  • Beyond-mean-field approaches (second random-phase approximation for excited spectra, beyond-mean-field effects on effective masses and on symmetry energy, pygmy resonances, soft monopole modes and incompressibility, Gamow-Teller resonances, towards neutrinoless double beta decay)

  • Correlations in finite nuclei (tensor, pairing)

  • Interdisciplinary links: past work also on metal clusters and ultracold atomic gases

Collective excitations

Response function

neutrinoless double beta decay

Nuclear energy-density functional

  • Low-density regime of neutron matter, benchmark on ab initio results, EFT-inspired functionals

  • Towards a power counting in EDF theories


Bridging EDF and EFT

Equation of state valid at low density

Power counting in Energy Density Functional

Size and mass of neutron stars

Highlighted articles in 2020

  • Gambacurta, Grasso, Engel, Gamow-Teller strength in 48Ca and 78Ni with the charge-exchange subtracted second random-phase approximation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 212501 (2020)

  • Burrello, Grasso, Yang, Towards a power counting in nuclear energy–density–functional theories through a perturbative analysis, Phys. Lett. B 811, 135938 (2020)

Publications list available at IdHAL: https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/marcella-grasso

PhD thesis proposed (starting in 2021):

Supervision of students and post-doc (presently):

  • 1 PhD student co-direction with CEA-DAM Bruyères-le-Châtel : Geoffrey Zietek


Contact Information

Email marcella.grasso_at_ijclab.in2p3.fr

Address

PhyNet Team (Pôle nucléaire)-Building 100

Paris-Saclay University, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay

Office A 104 (first floor)


Tel Orsay: (+33) 1 69 15 62 49