Hello, A yearly allocation for the LCRC cluster has been requested with the following updated information: Submitter/PI: Richard Chasman Project Name: NuclearStructure Division: PHY Project title: Optimization of many-body wavefunctions Associated funding: DOE/Office of Nuclear Physics Other Systems: desktop Science: The purpose of this work is to obtain a good description of low-lying nuclear states, going beyond a mean-field description. It becomes necessary to go beyond the mean-field approximation when the nucleus of interest is transitional in some sense, e.g. transitional between a spherical shape and a deformed shape. The need to go beyond a mean-field description is particularly important for excited states. Project description: We are studying medium mass nuclei using an interaction that includes n-p pairing together with deformation. At present, we are investigating several interactions that give rise to deformation in order to determine which ones provide a good description of nuclei having almost equal numbers of protons and neutrons. Project URL: Current FY Hours Used: undetermined amount New FY Requested allocation: 6000 Q1: 1500 Q2: 1500 Q3: 1500 Q4: 1500 Justification: Thank You, The LCRC Accounts System