HF-SHELL

Shape transition of 162Dy as a function of inverse temperature.
Shape transition of 162Dy as a function of inverse temperature.

HF-SHELL is a FORTRAN code, suitable to solve the self-consistent mean-field equations for both nuclear ground states as well as at finite temperature for Configuration Interaction Shell Model Hamiltonians. It is particularly useful to study nuclear level densities.

The paper, which includes a manual, can be found either on the website of EPJA or on arXiv, while you can find the source code on Github.

To my knowledge, this code has so far been useful for:

  1. Numerically checking the limiting behaviour of finite-temperature HFB in the combined limits of zero temperature and zero pairing in this paper.

  2. Benchmarking more advanced level-density calculations in this paper.

EV8 v2.0

Fig. 1 from W. Ryssens et al.
Fig. 1 from W. Ryssens et al.

EV8 is a FORTRAN code to solve the self-consistent HF+BCS equations on a three-dimensional coordinate mesh, for use with energy density functionals of the Skyrme type. It assumes a bunch of self-consistent symmetries, such that it can get away with representing the nucleus on just one-eight of a cubic volume, as illustrated on the right. This release is the second version of the original EV8 code.

The paper for the second version can be found on the website of CPC or on arXiv. The paper of the original version (v1.0) of EV8 can be found here. The original source code as published of both versions can be found here.

However, if you want to use the code, I strongly recommend to refer to the public github repository. In contrast to the static published versions, this repository allows us to incorporate fixes for small issues discovered by ourselves and others. We also offer an embarrasingly large list of corrections for errors in the published paper.