331 research outputs found
First application of the continuum-QRPA to description of the double beta decay
A continuum-QRPA approach to calculation of the - and
-amplitudes has been formulated. For Te a regular
suppression (about 20%) of the high-multipole contributions to the
-amplitude has been found which can be associated with
additional ground state correlations appearing from the transitions to
collective states in the continuum. At the same time the total calculated
-amplitude for Te gets suppressed by about 20% as
compared to the result of the usual, discretized, QRPA.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of the 27th Int. School on Nuclear
Physics "Neutrinos in Cosmology, in Astro, Particle and Nuclear Physics",
Erice, Italy, Sept. 16-24, 2005. To appear in Prog.Part.Nucl.Phy
The puzzle of the synthesis of the rare nuclide 138La
The calculations of the p-process in the O/Ne layers of Type II supernovae
are quite successful in reproducung the solar system content of p-nuclides.
They predict, however, a significant underproduction of the rare odd-odd
nuclide 138La. A model for the explosion of a 25 Mo star with solar metallicity
is used to suggest that electron neutrino captures on 138Ba may well be its
most efficient production mechanism. The responsibility of an inadequate
prediction of the 138La and 139La photodisintegration rates in the too low
production of 138La is also examined quantitatively. A detailed discussion of
the theoretical uncertainties in these rates suggest that the required rate
changes are probably too high to be fully plausible. Their measurement would be
most welcome. They would help disentangling the relative contributions of
thermonuclear and neutrino processes to the 138La production.Comment: 4 pages to be published by A&A Letter
The beta-delayed neutron emission in 78Ni region
A systematic study of the total -decay half-lives and -delayed
neutron emission probabilities is performed. The -strength function is
treated within the self-consistent density-functional + continuum-QRPA
framework including the Gamow-Teller and first-forbidden transitions. The
experimental total -decay half-lives for the Ni isotopes with 76
are described satisfactorily. The half-lives predicted from =70 up to =86
reveal fairly regular -behaviour which results from simultaneous account for
the Gamow-Teller and first-forbidden transitions. For 28 nuclei, a
suppression of the delayed neutron emission probability is found when the
=50 neutron closed shell is crossed. The effect originates from the
high-energy first-forbidden transitions to the states outside the -window in the daughter nuclei.
PACS numbers: 23.40.Bw,21.60.Jz,25.30.Pt,26.30.+kComment: LaTeX, 13 pages, 5 figure
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