CEA, Bruyeres

Structure of Superheavy Nuclei with the Gogny force

An overview of the structure and stability properties of superheavy nuclei obtained from self-consistent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov employing the Gogny force will be presented. Results about shell gaps, fission barriers and stability against alpha-decay will be discussed and compared with experimental data and other theoretical approaches. In particular recent studies of $\alpha$-decay chains involving odd nuclides will be presented.