The role of Fermi motion and quark exchange as a nuclear medium effect in the nuclear structure function of 3He, 3H nuclei and their EMC effects

To extract the nuclear structure function of light nuclei like ³He and ³H, the convolution of proton and neutron structure functions in the conventional approach could not explain the modification of nuclear structure functions of these nuclei because of some nuclear medium effects. There are some models that have some success to explain the modification of nuclear structure functions in limited x range. So in this investigation the quark exchange model is considered to extract the nuclear medium effect of this phenomenon (quark exchange effect) for nuclear structure functions of ³He and ³H nuclei. The Fermi motion part of the nuclear structure functions for these nuclei is extracted by taking the GRV’s neutron and proton structure functions in the conventional approach. So the nuclear structure functions and the EMC ratios of ³He and ³H nuclei are calculated by considering both Fermi motion and the nuclear medium effect of quark exchange. Finally the extracted results are compared with available data.     

Nuclear electric quadrupole moment of41Ca by laser-RF spectroscopy

Zeitschrift für Physik A Hadrons and nuclei - The nuclear electric quadrupole moment of41Ca, which contains a single neutron outside closed proton and neutron shells (N=Z=20) has been...     

Route to islands of stability of superheavy elements

Problems concerning the existence of hypothetical superheavy elements for which theoretical nuclear models predict high stability with respect to various modes of radioactive decay are discussed. The synthesis of superheavy nuclei and the possibilities for performing experiments aimed at detecting rare events of their production and decay in heavy-ion beams are considered. Experimental results suggesting a considerable increase in the lifetime of nuclei as they approach the closed proton and neutron shells determining the islands of stability of superheavy elements are presented.     

基于相对论Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov近似的新幻数研究（英文）

基于相对论Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov （RHFB） 近似分别探索了质量-电荷极限下的超重元素与极端中质比下的奇特原子核中的新幻数问题。研究结果表明,赝自旋对称性的守恒和破缺与超重核区球形幻数结构的形成密切相关,并分别决定了中子与质子的新幻数结构。同时,理论模型之间的差异也与之密切相关。在中重奇特核区,RHFB近似很好地再现了Ca 同位素中的新幻数N = 32,34,其中同位旋矢量道中洛伦兹张量耦合扮演了较为关键的角色。以此为例,研究证明了显式考虑交换（Fock） 项的RHFB 近似的可靠性。Recent applications of the relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (RHFB) approach in exploring the new magicities under extreme conditions are presented for the superheavy elements with the limits of mass and charge and for the exotic nuclei with extreme neutron-to-proton ratios. It is found that the emergence of new magic shells in superheavy region is tightly related to the restoration and violation of pseudo-spin symmetry, respectively for the neutron and proton ones, in which the model deviations are indicated and discussed. In medium-heavy exotic nuclei, the occurrence of new magicity N = 32, 34 in Ca isotopes is well reproduced by the RHFB approach, in which the isovector Lorentz tensor couplings are found to play an essential role. The results exemplify that the RHFB approach, which considers the exchange (Fock) terms explicitly, furnishes a new theoretical instrument for advancing relativistic nuclear mean-field approaches.     

Shell structure of new magic nuclei: Systematics of features

Investigation of the structure of the upper shells of new magic nuclei revealed an empirical regularity with the following characteristic feature: closed proton and neutron subshells, with identically large total angular momenta (j = j coupling), are located near the Fermi energy and there is a closed subshell with j = 1/2 above one of them. The properties of the nuclei exhibiting this feature of closed upper proton and neutron subshells have been investigated in detail. Quantitative manifestation of the new magicity effects, depending on the occupancy of the corresponding subshells with nucleons, has been analyzed. Several nuclei have been found, which, obviously, also have magic properties, and all classical, new magic, and nonmagic oxygen isotopes ^14–48O have been considered from the new point of view.     

一个奇异中子分布结构存在的判据

通过小液滴模型的中子皮厚度计算出的中子、质子均方根半径之差与实验的比较发现,实验提取的正常核的均方根半径之差与小液滴模型计算基本一致;有奇异中子分布结构(皮或晕)核的均方根半径之差的实验结果比小液滴模型的计算结果有异常增大.提出了一个与分离能相关的有效中子皮厚度,它能很好地反映有奇异中子分布结构核的中子皮厚度的反常增加,建议把它作为奇异中子分布结构存在的判据.     

A study of the weak coupling limit of the pseudo SU(3) scheme

The usefulness of the pseudo SU(3) weak coupling limit for the study of even-even nuclei for which the protons and neutrons fill different major oscillator shells is examined. The content of proton and neutron configurations in the total wave function of the coupled space is estimated in order to understand their relative importance. The structure of ¹⁴⁴Ba is investigated in detail. Our calculations show that both proton and neutron configurations are important to study the collective excitations in nuclei and perhaps the strong coupling limit is more appropriate for nuclei such as those considered in this work.     

Collective excitations in the unitary correlation operator method and relativistic QRPA studies of exotic nuclei

The collective excitation phenomena in atomic nuclei are studied in two different formulations of the random-phase approximation (RPA): (i) RPA based on correlated realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions constructed within the unitary correlation operator method (UCOM) and (ii) relativistic RPA derived from effective Lagrangians with density-dependent meson-exchange interactions. The former includes the dominant interaction-induced short-range central and tensor correlations by means of unitary transformation. It is shown that UCOM-RPA correlations induced by collective nuclear vibrations recover a part of the residual long-range correlations that are not explicitly included in the UCOM Hartree-Fock ground state. Both RPA models are employed in studies of the isoscalar giant monopole resonance in closed-shell nuclei across the nuclide chart, with an emphasis on the sensitivity of its properties on the constraints for the range of the UCOM correlation functions. Within the relativistic quasiparticle RPA (RQRPA) based on the relativistic Hartree-Bogolyubov model, the occurrence of pronounced low-lying dipole excitations is predicted in nuclei towards the proton drip line. From the analysis of the transition densities and the structure of the RQRPA amplitudes, it is shown that these states correspond to the proton pygmy dipole resonance. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Calculation of astrophysical reaction rate of 82Ge(n,γ)83Ge

The neutron capture reaction on a neutron-rich near closed-shell nucleus 82Ge may play an important role in the r-process following the fallout from nuclear statistical equilibrium in core-collapse supernovae.By carrying out a DWBA analysis for the experimental angular distribution of 82Ge(d, p)83Ge reaction we obtain the single particle spectroscopic factors, S2,5/2 and S0,1/2 for the ground and first excited states of 83Ge=82Ge(⊕)n, respectively. And then these spectroscopic factors are used to calculate the direct capture cross sections for the 82Ge(n, γ)83Ge reaction at energies of astrophysical interest. The optical potential for neutron scattering on unstable nucleus 82Ge is not known experimentally. We employed a real folding potential which was calculated by using the proper 82Ge density distribution and an effective nucleon-nucleon force DDM3Y.The neutron capture reactions on neutron-rich closed-shell nuclei are expected to be dominated by the direct capture to bound states. We will show that the direct capture rates on these nuclei are sensitive to the structure of the low-lying states.     

传统中子幻数稳定性的研究

在考虑了BCS理论的相对论平均场模型框架内,通过系统研究N=8,20,28,50,82和126六条同中子素链中每个元素费米面附近的单粒子能级间隔、粒子数占有概率比以及原子核体系的粒子数偏离随质子数的变化规律,讨论了传统中子幻数的壳结构在从中子滴线区到质子滴线区整个核谱上的稳定性,预言只有在轻核的丰中子区域,传统的中子幻数效应才可能消失,并把计算结果和最近的文献报道作了比较. 关键词： 相对论平均场模型 能级间隔 占有概率 粒子数偏离     

A shell-model description of 0+ intruder states in even-even nuclei

Starting from the nuclear shell structure in medium-heavy and heavy nuclei, the excitation energy for low-lying 0⁺ intruder states is studied. Taking as a simplified model two particle-two hole (2p-2h) excitations across closed shells, the effects of the pairing and the proton-neutron (monopole and quadrupole component) residual interaction on the unperturbed energies are calculated. Application to major closed-shell (fZ = 50, Z = 82) and to subshell (Z = 40, Z = 64) regions is performed. We especially concentrate on 0⁺ intruder states in the even-even Pb nuclei.     

Mass differences and neutron pairing in Ca,Sn and Pb isotopes

Various estimates of the even-odd effect of the mass shell of atomic nuclei are considered.Based on the experimental mass values of the Ca,Sn,and Pb isotopes,the dependence of the energy gap on the neutron number is traced and the relationship of this characteristic to the properties of external neutron subshells is shown.In nuclei with closed proton shells,effects directly related to neutron pairing and effects of nucleon shells are discussed.     

Mass Ratios and Proton Pairing for Isotones with <Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis> = 20, 50, and 82

Different estimates of the even–odd effect for the nuclear mass surface are discussed. The proton-number dependence of the energy gap is derived from the measured masses of the N = 20, 50, and 82 isotones with closed neutron shells. Its interrelation with the properties of external proton shells is demonstrated, and the effects of proton pairing are considered along with the microscopic nuclear structure.     

利用改进的pn-QRPA模型研究等待点原子核的β衰变性质

r-过程等待点原子核的β衰变半衰期对研究宇宙中重元素起源有重要意义。质子-中子准粒子无规相位近似(pn-QRPA)是研究原子核β衰变的重要理论模型。本工作提出了一个改进的 pn-QRPA 模型,系统研究了满壳附近原子核的 β 衰变性质。与之前的工作相比,改进的模型采用了中子数和质子数依赖的新粒子-粒子和粒子-空穴相互作用形式。本工作首先计算了满壳附近一些已知原子核的 β衰变半衰期和 Gamow-Teller 强度分布,发现理论结果与实验数据符合较好,检验了新模型的可靠性。随后,理论预测了 $N=50$, $N=82$ 和 $N=126$附近未知的等待点原子核的 β衰变半衰期,如124Mo, 126Ru, 128Pd, 186Nd, 188Sm, 192Dy, 194Er, 196Yb, 198Hf等,预测结果与之前的模型相近。这些结果对未来满壳层附近的r-过程物理研究有参考价值。     

放射性束装置给核结构研究带来的新机遇

利用放射性束装置所提供的高强度和高分辨率的短寿命核束流可达到核中质比的极端值 ,新的现象 ,如中子晕、质子晕、中子皮、质子皮、壳的减弱或消失 ,以及在滴线附近对力的重要性和核物质中质子 -中子对的新超导相的可能存在等不断涌现 .对这些现象进行研究和理解 ,然后回到实验上较易达到的稳定区核去检验人们的理解 ,会对进一步研究核结构、核合成、核天文和自然界基本对称性提供新的机遇 .By making use of the facility for radioactive beams which would be able to supply intense high resolution beams of short lived (radioactive) nuclei, the neutron proton ratio can be extended to extreme values, where some new phenomena such as neutron halo, proton halo, neutron skin, proton skin, growing evidence of the fragility or disappearance of shell structure far from stability, the importance of pairing correlation near drip line, and the possible existence of new superconducting phases of...     

A～130过渡区核的高自旋态研究

评述了Ａ～１３０过渡区Ｉ、Ｘｅ、Ｃｓ和Ｂａ核的高自旋核结构研究．在这些核中观测到的极为丰富的核结构现象,如质子中子转排竞争、形状共存、带终结、带交叉延迟、Ｓｉｇｎａｔｕｒｅ反转和八极关联等与这些核的价质子、价中子都位于ｈ１１／２支壳及这些核易产生γ形变有关. The studies of high spins states of A ～130 transitional I,Xe,Cs and Ba nuclei are reviewed. The variety of nuclear structure, such as proton neutron alignment competition, shape coexistance, band termination, crossing delay, signature inversion, octupole correlation, etc. observed in these nuclei is closely related to that both the valence proton and neutron of these nuclei are located in the h 11/2 subsell and the nuclei are soft against the γ deformation.     

Nuclear Energy Density Functional and the Nuclear α Decay

We study the nuclear α decay of heavy nuclei using nuclear energy density functionals. This allows us to write the structure of the nuclear α potential inside the parent nucleus in terms of the proton and neutron density profile of the daughter nucleus with ad hoc parameters which control the strength of the potential. We adopt the Skyrme force model, Gogny force model, and relativistic mean field model to get the nucleon density profiles inside heavy nuclei. This approach is then applied to get predictions for unknown decay halflives of heavy nuclei and our results are compared with other model predictions.     

Microscopic structure of nuclei from scattering through isobaric analogue resonances

Microscopic nuclear structure information that can be reached by proton scattering through isobaric analogue resonances (IAR) is discussed, mainly within the framework of weak-coupling. The concept of isospin for unbound states is examined. A critical evaluation of the methods for extracting nuclear structure information from the experimental results (such as excitation functions, angular distributions, etc.) is given. The mass regions that are studied in detail are the Pb-region and the N = 82 neutron single-closed shell nuclei. Attention is given to the comparison between weak-coupling calculations and experimental results supporting this concept in many nuclei. Level schemes as well as proton partial decay widths and angular distributions have been calculated and compared with the existing data concerning the proton decay of IAR. The concept of generalized neutron particle-hole (GNPH) state is introduced and its occurence extensively discussed within the Pb-region and N = 82 nuclei.     

Neutron radii and skins in the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations

We examine the systematic predictions for proton and neutron radii in even-even nuclei made by the self-consistent Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory. Such an approach allows us to describe nuclei far from stability, where the spatial extensions of a nuclear system crucially depend on the continuum effects. We concentrate on the influence of spherical shell structure on global behavior of radii. The (N, Z)-localization of neutron and proton skins is discussed.     

Partitioning of a two component particle system and the isotope distribution in nuclear fragmentation

The general problem of partitioning a finite system consisting of two kinds of particles is solved. Average frequencies of clusters are calculated under the assumption that all partitions are equally probable. Some restrictions to this assumption are considered. In the nuclear case where we have protons and neutrons we have utilized a method of generating partitions in order to calculate the isotopic yields of fragmenting nuclei. The results imply that the neutron/proton and dineutron/diproton ratios might be good probes for the excitation energy of an asymmetric fragmenting nuclear system.