原子核物理中的协变密度泛函理论

文章介绍了原子核协变密度泛函理论的历史发展、理论框架、对原子核基态和激发态的描述以及在一些交叉学科领域的应用。首先,通过回顾原子核物理研究中的几个重要里程碑并结合二十一世纪原子核物理面临的机遇和挑战,对当前核物理的研究热点和重要课题进行了介绍。随后系统介绍了原子核协变密度泛函理论,内容包括协变密度泛函理论的历史发展、一般理论公式、介子交换模型、点耦合模型、交换项、张量相互作用、物理观测量的计算公式等。协变密度泛函理论的应用包括原子核基态性质和激发态性质的描述以及在核天体物理与标准模型检验中的应用。其中,基态性质包括原子核结合能、半径、单粒子能级、共振态、磁矩、晕现象等。激发态性质包括原子核磁转动、低激发态性质、集体转动、量子相变、集体振动等。在核天体物理与标准模型检验的应用中,主要以核纪年法测算宇宙年龄和Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa矩阵的幺正性检验等为例,介绍协变密度泛函理论在交叉学科领域的应用。     

Restoration of pseudo-spin symmetry in N = 32 and N = 34 isotones described by relativistic Hartree-Fock theory

The restoration of pseudo-spin symmetry(PSS) along the N = 32 and N = 34 isotonic chains and the physics behind are studied by applying the relativistic Hartree-Fock theory with the effective Lagrangian PKA1. Taking the proton pseudo-spin partners(π2s_(1/2), π1d_(3/2)) as candidates, the systematic restoration of PSS along both isotonic chains is found from sulphur(S) to nickel(Ni), while an obvious PSS violation from silicon(Si) to sulphur is discovered near the drip lines. The effects of the tensor force components are investigated, introduced naturally by the Fock terms, which can only partially interpret the systematics from calcium to nickel, whereas they fail for the overall trends. Further analysis following the Schr?dinger-like equation of the lower component of Dirac spinor shows that contributions from the Hartree terms dominate the overall systematics of the PSS restoration. Such effects can be self-consistently interpreted by the evolution of the proton central density profiles along both isotonic chains. In particular, the PSS violation is found to tightly relate to the dramatic changes from the bubble-like density profiles in silicon to the central-bumped ones in sulphur.     

原子核Gamow-Teller共振和β衰变寿命的超越平均场描述

原子核的β衰变是决定宇宙中从铁到铀重元素合成的关键核过程之一。原子核β衰变的主导核跃迁是Gamow-Teller(GT)跃迁，因此，研究原子核β衰变寿命的关键是准确描述原子核的GT跃迁。描述原子核GT跃迁和β衰变寿命最常用的理论模型之一为无规相位近似(RPA)模型。然而，由于该模型仅考虑了一粒子一空穴激发组态，因此无法给出GT共振宽度，并容易高估β衰变寿命。为了克服上述困难，基于Skyrme密度泛函，发展了包含粒子振动耦合效应的无规相位近似(RPA+PVC)模型。相比于RPA模型，该模型在组态空间进一步考虑了一粒子一空穴和声子的耦合组态，从而包含了超越平均场的多体关联效应。为了推广至开壳原子核的研究，进一步考虑了对关联效应，发展了包含准粒子振动耦合效应的准粒子无规相位近似(QRPA+QPVC)模型。基于上述模型，研究了幻数原子核和超流原子核的GT跃迁、β衰变和β+/电子俘获。研究发现，采用同一组Skyrme相互作用参数SkM*，上述模型能够重现实验测量的GT共振宽度和跃迁强度分布，部分解释实验观测的GT跃迁强度压低问题，并同时改进对β衰变寿命的描述。该文针对上述最新研究进展进行了综述，并对将来的发展方向给出展望。     

Stability of Strutinsky Shell Correction Energy in Relativistic Mean Field Theory

The single-particle spectrum obtained from the relativistic mean field （RMF） theory is used to extract the shell correction energy with the Strutinsky method. Considering the delicate balance between the plateau condition in the Strutinsky smoothing procedure and the convergence for the total binding energy, the proper space sizes used in solving the RMF equations are investigated in detail by taking ^208 Pb as an example. With the proper space sizes, almost the same shell correction energies are obtained by solving the RMF equations either on basis space or in coordinate space.