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Few-body decay and recombination in nuclear astrophysics
Three-body continuum problems are investigated for light nuclei of
astrophysical relevance. We focus on three-body decays of resonances or
recombination via resonances or the continuum background. The concepts of
widths, decay mechanisms and dynamic evolution are discussed. We also discuss
results for the triple decay in connection with resonances and
density and temperature dependence rates of recombination into light nuclei
from -particles and neutrons.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures. Proceedings of the 21st European Few Body
Conference held in Salamanca (Spain) in August-September 201
Effect of deformation on two-neutrino double beta decay matrix elements
We study the effect of deformation on the two-neutrino double beta decay for
ground state to ground state transitions in all the nuclei whose half-lives
have been measured. Our theoretical framework is a deformed QRPA based in
Woods-Saxon or Hartree-Fock mean fields. We are able to reproduce at the same
time the main characteristics of the two single beta branches, as well as the
double beta matrix elements. We find a suppression of the double beta matrix
element with respect to the spherical case when the parent and daughter nuclei
have different deformations
Momentum distributions of -particles from decaying low-lying C-resonances
The complex scaled hyperspherical adiabatic expansion method is used to
compute momentum and energy distributions of the three -particles
emerging from the decay of low-lying C-resonances. The large distance
continuum properties of the wave functions are crucial and must be accurately
calculated. We discuss separately decays of natural parity states: two ,
one , three , one , two , one , and one of each of
unnatural parity, , , , . The lowest natural parity state
of each decays predominantly sequentially via the Be ground
state whereas other states including unnatural parity states predominantly
decay directly to the continuum. We present Dalitz plots and systematic
detailed momentum correlations of the emerging -particles.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review
Three-body decays: structure, decay mechanism and fragment properties
We discuss the three-body decay mechanisms of many-body resonances. R-matrix
sequential description is compared with full Faddeev computation. The role of
the angular momentum and boson symmetries is also studied. As an illustration
we show the computed -particle energy distribution after the decay of
12C(1^+) resonance at 12.7 MeV.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the workshop "Critical Stability
of Few-Body Quantum Systems" 200
Nuclear shape dependence of Gamow-Teller distributions in neutron-deficient Pb isotopes
We study Gamow-Teller strength distributions in the neutron-deficient even
isotopes (184-194)Pb in a search for signatures of deformation. The microscopic
formalism used is based on a deformed quasiparticle random phase approximation
(QRPA) approach, which involves a self-consistent quasiparticle deformed Skyrme
Hartree-Fock (HF) basis and residual spin-isospin forces in both the
particle-hole and particle-particle channels. By analyzing the sensitivity of
the Gamow-Teller strength distributions to the various ingredients in the
formalism, we conclude that the beta-decay of these isotopes could be a useful
tool to look for fingerprints of nuclear deformation.Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures. To be published in Physical Review
Few-body quantum method in a -dimensional space
In this work we investigate the continuous confinement of quantum systems
from three to two dimensions. Two different methods will be used and related.
In the first one the confinement is achieved by putting the system under the
effect of an external field. This method is conceptually simple, although, due
to the presence of the external field, its numerical implementation can become
rather cumbersome, especially when the system is highly confined. In the second
method the external field is not used, and it simply considers the spatial
dimension as a parameter that changes continuously between the ordinary
integer values. In this way the numerical effort is absorbed in a modified
strength of the centrifugal barrier. Then the technique required to obtain the
wave function of the confined system is precisely the same as needed in
ordinary three dimensional calculations without any confinement potential. The
case of a two-body system squeezed from three to two dimensions is considered,
and used to provide a translation between all the quantities in the two
methods. Finally we point out perspectives for applications on more particles,
different spatial dimensions, and other confinement potentials.Comment: To be published in Physics Letters
Above threshold s-wave resonances illustrated by the 1/2 states in Be and B
We solve the persistent problem of the structure of the lowest
resonance in Be which is important to bridge the A=8 gap in nucleosynthesis
in stars. We show that the state is a genuine three-body resonance even though
it decays entirely into neutron-Be relative s-waves. The necessary barrier
is created by "dynamical" evolution of the wave function as the short-distance
-He structure is changed into the large-distance n-Be
structure. This decay mechanism leads to a width about two times smaller than
table values. The previous interpretations as a virtual state or a two-body
resonance are incorrect. The isobaric analog 1/2 state in B is found to
have energy and width in the vicinity of 2.0 MeV and 1.5 MeV, respectively. We
also predict another 1/2 resonance in B with similar energy and width.Comment: To be published in Physics Letters
alpha particle momentum distributions from 12C decaying resonances
The computed particle momentum distributions from the decay of
low-lying C resonances are shown. The wave function of the decaying
fragments is computed by means of the complex scaled hyperspherical adiabatic
expansion method. The large-distance part of the wave functions is crucial and
has to be accurately calculated. We discuss energy distributions, angular
distributions and Dalitz plots for the , and states of
C.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings of the SOTANCP2008 conference held in
Strasbourg in May 200
Direct and sequential radiative three-body reaction rates at low temperatures
We investigate the low-temperature reaction rates for radiative capture
processes of three particles. We compare direct and sequential capture
mechanisms and rates using realistic phenomenological parametrizations of the
corresponding photodissociation cross sections.Energy conservation prohibits
sequential capture for energies smaller than that of the intermediate two-body
structure. A finite width or a finite temperature allows this capture
mechanism. We study generic effects of positions and widths of two- and
three-body resonances for very low temperatures. We focus on nuclear reactions
relevant for astrophysics, and we illustrate with realistic estimates for the
-- and -- radiative capture
processes. The direct capture mechanism leads to reaction rates which for
temperatures smaller than 0.1 GK can be several orders of magnitude larger than
those of the NACRE compilation.Comment: To be published in European Physical Journal
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