Relativistic Mean Field Description of Exotic Nuclei

Abstract

In this chapter, we will present relativistic mean field (RMF) model with pairing treated by the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS) and the relativistic Hartree–Bogoliubov (RHB) approaches and applications for exotic nuclear phenomena including nuclear halos, the position of the proton drip line and proton radioactivity, the surface diffuseness and its relation to nuclear exotic phenomena, and the effects of pairing correlations on the nuclear size.