Effect of tensor interaction on heavy and superheavy nuclei

The effect of tensor interaction is discussed on the deformation and the shell structure of heavy and superheavy nuclei within the deformed Skyrme Hartree-Fock+BCS model. The importance of the tensor correlations is shown for the single particle spectra of protons in ²⁴⁹Bk. The large shell gaps of superheavy nuclei are found at Z = 114 and Z = 120 for protons and N = 184 for neutrons with the spherical shape irrespective of the tensor correlations. It is also shown that Z = 114 and N = 164 shell gaps are more pronounced by the tensor correlations in the case of SLy5+T interaction.