Study ofpf-shell nuclei with a symmetry conserving generator coordinate method

Bands based on the 0⁺ ground state and the first excited 0⁺ pairing vibrational state of⁴⁸Ti,⁵²Cr and⁵⁶Fe are studied with the generator coordinate method. The generating wave functions for each value of the angular momentumJ are angular momentum and particle number projected selfconsistent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov states where the constrained amount of pairing correlations serves as the generator coordinate. The interaction is given by reaction matrix elements derived from the Hamada-Johnston force. The basis includes the four lowest oscillator shells. The excitation energies of the pairing vibrational states can be reproduced fairly well by the present choice of the generating wave functions, whereas the ground band is not much improved compared to projected Hartree-Bogoliubov calculations. We find that the strength of the pairing correlations in the 0⁺ and 2⁺ states of the ground state and the pairing vibrational bands can be related to data of two-particle transfer reactions. The angular momentum dependence of the pairing correlations and of the moments of inertia are studied. The results show that for a strongly paired ground state the ground state band and the pairing vibrational band intersect. This may produce in the yrast band the anomaly of the moment of inertia known from rare earth nuclei.     

Towards the nuclear matter-quark matter phase transition

Baryon magnetic moments are considered in the quark model. Small contributions to the moments are assumed to arise from configuration mixing (including configurations with orbital angular momentum) in the baryon wave functions, from SU (3) breaking, and from the dependence of the effective quark masses on their environment. It is found that these contributions can improve the agreement of the quark model with experiment. However, so long as quarks have Dirac magnetic moments, charge symmetry holds, and SU (3) breaking effects are small, there is a residual disagreement between predictions of the model and values of some of the recently measured hyperon magnetic moments.     

The strange backbending behaviour in the Yb isotopes

The rotational energies and the backbending behaviour of ^166,168,170Yb are calculated utilizing angular momentum and particle number projected deformed BCS trial wave functions. The anomaly of the moment of inertia can be reproduced quantitatively with the moment of inertia of an inert core as the only free parameter. A possible explanation for the strange behaviour in the Yb isotopes is given.     

On the impact of large amplitude pairing fluctuations on nuclear spectra

The influence of large amplitude pairing fluctuations is investigated in the framework of beyond mean field symmetry conserving configuration mixing calculations. In the numerical application the finite range density dependent Gogny force is used. We investigate the nucleus ⁵⁴Cr with particle number and angular momentum projected wave functions considering the axial quadrupole deformation and the pairing gap degree of freedom as generator coordinates. We find that the effects of the pairing fluctuations increase with the excitation energy and the angular momentum. The self-consistency in the determination of the basis states plays an important role.     

Problems of angular momentum projection in nuclear physics

In nuclear models approximate wave functions are often used which do no have sharp angular momentum as required of the exact wave functions. It seem obvious that model wave functions of this type should be improved by projection onto states of good angular momentum. It is not the purpose of this paper to discuss the technical difficulties of projection (which can be formidable for many particle systems), but rather to present in an elementary way certain fundamental ambiguities in the use of projection. An application to high spin states near the yrast line is suggested.     

Relativistic Consistent Angular-Momentum Projected Shell-Model:Relativistic Mean Field

We develop a relativistic nuclear structure model, relativistic consistent angular-momentum projected shell-model (RECAPS), which combines the relativistic mean-field theory with the angular-momentum projection method. In this new model, nuclear ground-state properties are first calculated consistently using relativistic mean-field (RMF) theory. Then angular momentum projection method is used to project out states with good angular momentum from a few important configurations. By diagonalizing the hamiltonian, the energy levels and wave functions are obtained. This model is a new attempt for the understanding of nuclear structure of normal nuclei and for the prediction of nuclear properties of nuclei far from stability. In this paper, we will describe the treatment of the relativistic mean field. A computer code, RECAPS-RMF, is developed. It solves the relativistic mean field with axial-symmetric deformation in the spherical harmonic oscillator basis. Comparisons between our calculations and existing relativistic mean-field calculations are made to test the model. These include the ground-state properties of spherical nuclei ¹⁶O and ²⁰⁸Pb, the deformed nucleus ²⁰Ne. Good agreement is obtained.     

Investigation of the cranking model wave function with respect to angular momentum

Projection of angular momentum on cranking model wave functions is performed for some simple cases. An extensive analysis has been possible since an algebraic projection technique is employed and a detailed numerical example is presented. The distribution of angular momentum as a function of rotational frequency and signature is analysed, and special attention is focused on the fact that the signature does not give any strict selection of angular momenta contained in the cranking wave function.     

Self-consistent models of collective and single-particle structures and their test by inelastic scattering: The case of 54Fe

Generator coordinate wave functions built from angular momentum and particle number projected Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov states that were constrained to different quadrupole deformations and allowing two-quasiparticle excitations are tested by their use in analyses of inelastic proton scattering. Transitions to low-lying states in ⁵⁴Fe are used as the specific examples and comparisons are made with appropriate, albeit smaller basis, shell-model predictions.     

Projected spectra of heavy nearly spherical odd-A nuclei

The energy spectra of heavy odd-A nuclei are investigated, using the angular momentum states projected from a BCS internal wave function with small value of deformation parameter. In this way the vibrational motion of spherical odd-mass nuclei can be studied in the frame-work of microscopic model. The results presented exhibit some similarity to the phenomeno-logical weak-coupling model of de-Shalit.     

Rotational symmetry of classical orbits, arbitrary quantization of angular momentum and the role of the gauge field in two-dimensional space

We study quantum–classical correspondence in terms of the coherent wave functions of a charged particle in two- dimensional central-scalar potentials as well as the gauge field of a magnetic flux in the sense that the probability clouds of wave functions are well localized on classical orbits. For both closed and open classical orbits, the non-integer angular-momentum quantization with the level space of angular momentum being greater or less than is determined uniquely by the same rotational symmetry of classical orbits and probability clouds of coherent wave functions, which is not necessarily 2π-periodic. The gauge potential of a magnetic flux impenetrable to the particle cannot change the quantization rule but is able to shift the spectrum of canonical angular momentum by a flux-dependent value, which results in a common topological phase for all wave functions in the given model. The well-known quantum mechanical anyon model becomes a special case of the arbitrary quantization, where the classical orbits are 2π-periodic.     

Static observables of relativistic three-fermion systems with instantaneous interactions

We show that static properties like the charge radius and the magnetic moment of relativistic three-fermion bound states with instantaneous interactions can be formulated as expectation values with respect to intrinsically defined wave functions. The resulting operators can be given a natural physical interpretation in accordance with relativistic covariance. We also indicate how the formalism may be generalized to arbitrary moments. The method is applied to the computation of static baryon properties with numerical results for the nucleon charge radii and the baryon octet magnetic moments. In addition, we make predictions for the magnetic moments of some selected nucleon resonances and discuss the decomposition of the nucleon magnetic moments in contributions of spin and angular momentum, as well as the evolution of these contributions with decreasing quark mass.     

Exact angular momentum projection of cranked Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov wave functions

The angular momentum projection of triaxial cranking model wave functions of realistic heavy nuclei is carried out exactly. Technical details of the procedure are discussed. The method is used to test the validity of the Kamlah expansion and of the angular momentum constraint in the cranking model. It turns out that the expansion up to the second order is already a very good approximation to the exact projection.     

On the microscopic description of the low-lying states in doubly even 2p-1f shell nuclei

The intrinsic states of doubly even Ti, Cr, Fe and Ni isotopes are obtained by carrying out HFB calculations employing a modified version of the Kuo-Brown effective interaction. The angular momentum projected spectra, the quadrupole moments of the first excited states as well as the reduced transition probabilities for E2 transitions are calculated and compared with the experiments. The overall agreement between the calculated and experimental results is quite good.     

On number and angular momentum projection from Hartree-Bogoliubov states

Rotational spectra, calculated by angular momentum projection from Hartree-Bogoliubov states may be completely distorted by particle number nonconservation. A simple method for correcting this is presented, which brings them close to the number projected spectra. It is also shown that by a slight modification of the usual number projection operator this projection may then be executed two times faster and with better numerical accuracy. We study the effect ofJ- and/orN projection before the variation in a constrained Hartree-Bogoliubov model. It is demonstrated that only simultaneous projection of both particle number and angular momentum before the variation is meaningful. Then a more gradual antipairing effect is found than known from previous work. We conclude however that the diagonalization of the Hamiltonian in a space of appropriately chosen generator wave functions is preferable to projection before the variation. In all cases the examples are nuclei in thesd-shell, calculated selfconsistently without separating off and inert core. The nucleon-nucleon force is the Hamada-Johnston potential.     

Bombarding energy dependence of angular momentum transfer in deep inelastic collisions

Measurements of first and second moments of γ-ray multiplicity distributions from deep inelastic collisions of ⁸⁶Kr + ¹⁵⁴Sm are reported. A global systematics of the angular momentum distributions from deep inelastic reactions with projectile masses ? 40 is presented. The average angular momentum is found to depend linearly on the incident channel average angular momentum, while no simple systematics for the second moment appears obvious. In order to illuminate the question whether the angular momentum transfer process reaches statistical equilibrium in deep inelastic collisions, numerical calculations have been performed on two models: a two-sphere classical model including the collective modes of twisting, bending, wriggling and tilting, and a statistical equilibrium Fermi-gas model. The two-sphere classical model is not able to account for the observed second moments, and neither does the Fermi-gas model give an explanation of the deep inelastic multiplicity data.     

平均场加邻近轨道对力模型描述N=94同中异质素性质

利用严格可解的Nilsson平均场加邻近轨道对力模型,在区分质子和中子情况下,研究了大形变核的性质,主要计算了中子数为N=94的同中异质素的结合能、奇偶能差和转动惯量,并与相应的实验值进行了系统比较,结果表明此模型可以合理描述这些性质,正确反映原子核奇偶性质的变化规律。然后以偶偶核160Dy为例,研究了基态中各角动量J=0,1,...,12价核子对的占有率。结果表明,偶角动量占有率远高于奇角动量占有率,其中S,D,G价核子对各组份在基态波函数中是主要的。The Nilsson mean-field plus the nearest orbit pairing model for deformed nuclei is applied to investigate systematically the properties of the N=94 nuclei,employing both proton-proton and neutron-neutron pairing interactions.The binding energies,even-odd mass differences,moments of inertia are calculated and compared with the corresponding experimental data.The results show that this model can reasonably describe these properties.Further,the ground-state occupation probabilities of valence nucleon pairs with angular momentum J=0,1,...,12 for even-even 160Dy are calculated,and the results show that it is much higher for the even angular momenta than the odd angular momenta,and the S,D,G components in the ground-state wave function are dominant.     

The projected Hartree-Fock spectra from a realistic two-body interaction

The projection method is used to obtain good angular momentum and good isospin states from the intrinsic Hartree-Fock states of the nuclei in the 2s-1d shell. An effective interaction derived from the Yale potential has been employed in the calculations. It is found that the static magnetic moments are predicted correctly. The static quadrupole moments and the lifetimes of the nuclear states for electric quadrupole transitions are predicted correctly if an effective charge of 0.5 e is ascribed to the neutrons. The projected energy spectra in even-mass nuclei are very much compressed as compared to the experimental spectra. The agreement between the projected and the experimental spectra in odd-mass nuclei is not so bad.     

On the Aharonov-Bohm effect for bound states

The following model is discussed: A charged particle is bound by some potential to the origin of a coordinate system in three-dimensional space, while a shielded magnetic flux threads an axis through the origin, thus producing an Aharonov-Bohm effect. The Hamiltonian, boundary conditions, wave functions, and energy levels for this model are derived, and in particular the properties of the operators of kinetic angular momentum are discussed. The results obtained shed new light on some more general questions pertaining to boundary conditions and to the theory of angular momentum.     

Traces of products of angular momentum operators

Traces of products of angular momentum operators in a spherical or cartesian basis are common in the theory of atomic levels in fields, in the theory of nuclear orientation and of asymmetric top moments. Conventional angular momentum techniques lead to difficult and cumbersome calculations. In the present paper Schwinger's coupled boson representation is used in straightforward calculations of angular momentum and spherical tensor traces, of matrix elements and of asymmetric top moments. Only simple algebra, elementary multiplication and summation of integers are necessary. The method considerably simplifies calculations with angular momentum operators.