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Effective interactions in medium heavy nuclei
We present a brief overview of microscopic nuclear structure approaches to
nuclei with mass number from 100 to 132. The emphasis is on the shell model and
theories for deriving effective interactions starting from the free
interactions between nucleons. New results for (105,106,107)Sb are presented.Comment: Proceedings of RNB5, 3-8 April 2000, Divonne, France. 6 pages,
Elsevier latex style. To appear in Nucl. Phys.
Convergence properties of the effective interaction
The convergence properties of two perturbative schemes to sum the so-called
folded diagrams are critically reviewed, with an emphasis on the intruder state
problem. The methods we study are the approaches of Kuo and co-workers and Lee
and Suzuki. The suitability of the two schemes for shell-model calculations are
discussed.Comment: 10 pages in revtex ver. 3.0. 3 figs can be obtained upon request.
Univerisity of Oslo report UiO/PHYS/93-2
Effective interactions and the nuclear shell-model
This review aims at a critical discussion of the interplay between effective
interactions derived from various many-body approaches and spectroscopic data
extracted from large scale shell-model studies. To achieve this, our many-body
scheme starts with the free nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction, typically
modelled on various meson exchanges. The NN interaction is in turn renormalized
in order to derive an effective medium dependent interaction. The latter is in
turn used in shell-model calculations of selected nuclei. We also describe how
to sum up the parquet class of diagrams and present initial uses of the
effective interactions in coupled cluster many-body theory.Comment: 61 pages, submitted to Prog. Part. Nucl. Phy
Comparison of the Effective Interaction to Various Orders in Different Mass Regions
The convergence of the perturbation expansion for the effective interaction
to be used in shell-model calculations is investigated as function of the mass
number , from to . As the mass number increases, there are more
intermediate states to sum over in each higher-order diagram which contributes
to the effective interaction. Together with the fact that the energy
denominators in each diagram are smaller for larger mass numbers, these two
effects could largely enhance higher-order contributions to the effective
interaction, thereby deteriorating the order-by-order convergence of the
effective interaction. This effect is counterbalanced by the short range of the
nucleon-nucleon interaction, which implies that its matrix elements are weaker
for valence single-particle states in ``large'' nuclei with large mass number
as compared to those in light nuclei. These effects are examined by comparing
various mean values of the matrix elements. It turns out that the contributions
from higher-order terms remain fairly stable as the mass number increases from
to . The implications for nuclear structure calculations are
discussed.Comment: Revtex, 20 pages, 1 figure not include
Simulated Dark-Matter Halos as a Test of Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics
In the framework of nonextensive statistical mechanics, the equilibrium
structures of astrophysical self-gravitating systems are stellar polytropes,
parameterized by the polytropic index n. By careful comparison to the
structures of simulated dark-matter halos we find that the density profiles, as
well as other fundamental properties, of stellar polytropes are inconsistent
with simulations for any value of n. This result suggests the need to
reconsider the applicability of nonextensive statistical mechanics (in its
simplest form) to equilibrium self-gravitating systems.Comment: Accepted for publication in Physical Review
X-ray Emission from the Radio Jet in 3C 120
We report the discovery of X-ray emission from a radio knot at a projected
distance of 25" from the nucleus of the Seyfert galaxy, 3C 120. The data were
obtained with the ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI). Optical upper limits for
the knot preclude a simple power law extension of the radio spectrum and we
calculate some of the physical parameters for thermal bremsstrahlung and
synchrotron self-Compton models. We conclude that no simple model is consistent
with the data but if the knot contains small regions with flat spectra, these
could produce the observed X-rays (via synchrotron emission) without being
detected at other wavebands.Comment: 6 pages latex plus 3 ps/eps figures. Uses 10pt.sty and
emulateapj.sty. Accepted for publication in the ApJ (6 Jan 99
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