1,331 research outputs found
Disentangling the nuclear shape coexistence in even-even Hg isotopes using the interacting boson model
We intend to provide a consistent description of the even-even Hg isotopes,
172-200Hg, using the interacting boson model including configuration mixing. We
pay special attention to the description of the shape of the nuclei and to its
connection with the shape coexistence phenomenon.Comment: To appear in CGS15 conference proceedings (EPJ Web of Conferences
The influence of intruder states in even-even Po isotopes
We study the role of intruder states and shape coexistence in the even-even
Po isotopes, through an interacting boson model with configuration
mixing calculation. We analyzed the results in the light of known systematics
on various observable in the Pb region, paying special attention to the
unperturbed energy systematics and quadrupole deformation. We find that shape
coexistence in the Po isotopes behaves in very much the same way as in the Pt
isotopes, i.e., it is somehow hidden, contrary to the situation in the Pb and
the Hg isotopes.Comment: Contribution to the Nuclear Structure and Dynamics 2015 (Portorose,
Slovenia) proceeding
Nuclear shape coexistence in Po isotopes: An interacting boson model study
Background: The lead region, Po, Pb, Hg, and Pt, shows up the presence of
coexisting structures having different deformation and corresponding to
different particle-hole configurations in the Shell Model language.
Purpose: We intend to study the importance of configuration mixing in the
understanding of the nuclear structure of even-even Po isotopes, where the
shape coexistence phenomena are not clear enough.
Method: We study in detail a long chain of polonium isotopes, 190-208Po,
using the interacting boson model with configuration mixing (IBM-CM). We fix
the parameters of the Hamiltonians through a least-squares fit to the known
energies and absolute B(E2) transition rates of states up to 3 MeV.
Results: We obtained the IBM-CM Hamiltonians and we calculate excitation
energies, B(E2)'s, electric quadrupole moments, nuclear radii and isotopic
shifts, quadrupole shape invariants, wave functions, and deformations.
Conclusions: We obtain a good agreement with the experimental data for all
the studied observables and we conclude that shape coexistence phenomenon is
hidden in Po isotopes, very much as in the case of the Pt isotopes.Comment: To be published in Physical Review C. arXiv admin note: text overlap
with arXiv:1312.459
Identifying neutrinos and antineutrinos in neutral-current scattering reactions
We study neutrino-induced nucleon knockout from nuclei. Expressions for the
induced polarization are derived within the framework of the
independent-nucleon model and the non-relativistic plane-wave approximation.
Large dissimilarities in the nucleon polarization asymmetries are observed
between neutrino- and antineutrino-induced processes. These asymmetries
represent a potential way to distinguish between neutrinos and antineutrinos in
neutral-current neutrino-scattering on nuclei. We discuss astrophysical
applications of these polarization asymmetries. Our findings are illustrated
for neutrino scattering on O and Pb.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
Livonia under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The struggle for power and the social transformation
Translated by PhD Andreas Keller. The article was submitted on 18.04.2014.The article describes the controversial correlation of forces in Livonia’s fight to retain its status quo. The geopolitical situation caused Livonia, though a sovereign but highly dependent state, to gradually disappear. Livonia’s structure was far from monolithic; it was a complex of secular, church, order and city jurisdictions. There were estates that had either lost or acquired rights. Internationally, this European province, whose territory was being claimed by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden, Denmark, and Russia, was incapable of surviving in the intensifying political and military confrontations that dominated the region in the last third of the 17th century.Дается развернутая панорама противоречивого соотношения сил в борьбе Ливонии за сохранение своего status quo. Стремительно менявшаяся геополитическая ситуация сложилась не в пользу существования Ливонии как сильно зависимого, но все же самостоятельного государственного образования, что привело к его постепенному упразднению. Внутреннее устройство Ливонии не было монолитным, это был сложный конгломерат различных юрисдикций: светской, церковной, орденской, городской. Здесь тоже были сословия, потерявшие или приобретшие свои права. Во внешнеполитической перспективе европейская провинция, на которую заявляли свои права польско-литовское государство, Швеция, Дания и Россия не могла устоять в обострившейся обстановке военно-политического противостояния сил, доминировавших в регионе, и к концу XVI в. это стало очевидным фактом
Shape evolution and shape coexistence in Pt isotopes: comparing interacting boson model configuration mixing and Gogny mean-field energy surfaces
The evolution of the total energy surface and the nuclear shape in the
isotopic chain Pt are studied in the framework of the interacting
boson model, including configuration mixing. The results are compared with a
self-consistent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculation using the Gogny-D1S
interaction and a good agreement between both approaches shows up. The
evolution of the deformation parameters points towards the presence of two
different coexisting configurations in the region 176 A 186.Comment: Submitted to PR
Spin-dependent neutrino-induced nucleon knockout
We study neutrino-induced nucleon knockout off atomic nuclei and examine the
polarization properties of the ejectile. A detailed study of the spin
dependence of the outgoing nucleon is presented. The numerical results are
derived within a non-relativistic plane-wave impulse-approximation approach.
Our calculations reveal large polarization asymmetries, and clear
dissimilarities between neutrino- and antineutrino-induced reactions. They
reflect the fact that neutrino-induced nucleon knockout is dominated by the
transverse axial current and gains its major contributions from forward nucleon
emission and backward lepton scattering.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Shell-model description of monopole shift in neutron-rich Cu
Variations in the nuclear mean-field, in neutron-rich nuclei, are
investigated within the framework of the nuclear shell model. The change is
identified to originate mainly from the monopole part of the effective two-body
proton-neutron interaction. Applications for the low-lying states in odd- Cu
nuclei are presented. We compare the results using both schematic and realistic
forces. We also compare the monopole shifts with the results obtained from
large-scale shell-model calculations, using the same realistic interaction, in
order to study two-body correlations beyond the proton mean-field variations.Comment: Phys. Rev. C (in press
A theoretical description of energy spectra and two-neutron separation energies for neutron-rich zirconium isotopes
Very recently the atomic masses of neutron-rich Zr isotopes, from Zr
to Zr, have been measured with high precision. Using a schematic
Interacting Boson Model (IBM) Hamiltonian, the evolution from spherical to
deformed shapes along the chain of Zr isotopes, describing at the same time the
excitation energies as well as the two-neutron separation energies, can be
rather well reproduced. The interplay between phase transitions and
configuration mixing of intruder excitations in this mass region is succinctly
addressed.Comment: Accepted in European Journal of Physics
Nuclear binding energies: Global collective structure and local shell-model correlations
Nuclear binding energies and two-neutron separation energies are analyzed
starting from the liquid-drop model and the nuclear shell model in order to
describe the global trends of the above observables. We subsequently
concentrate on the Interacting Boson Model (IBM) and discuss a new method in
order to provide a consistent description of both, ground-state and
excited-state properties. We address the artefacts that appear when crossing
mid-shell using the IBM formulation and perform detailed numerical calculations
for nuclei situated in the 50-82 shell. We also concentrate on local deviations
from the above global trends in binding energy and two-neutron separation
energies that appear in the neutron-deficient Pb region. We address possible
effects on the binding energy, caused by mixing of low-lying intruder
states into the ground state, using configuration mixing in the IBM framework.
We also study ground-state properties using a deformed mean-field approach.
Detailed comparisons with recent experimental data in the Pb region are amply
discussed.Comment: 69 pages, TeX (ReVTeX). 23 eps figures. 1 table. Modified version.
Accepted in Nucl. Phys.
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