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Probing nuclear shapes close to the fission limit with the giant dipole resonance in 216 Rn
The gamma-ray decay of the giant dipole resonance (GDR) in the compound nucleus {sup 216}Rn formed with the reaction {sup 18}O+{sup 198}Pt at the bombarding energy of 96 MeV was investigated. High-energy gamma-ray spectra in coincidence with both prompt and delayed low-energy transitions were measured. The obtained GDR width at the average temperature {approx_equal}1 MeV was found to be larger than that at T=0 MeV and to be approximately constant as a function of spin. The measured width value of 7 MeV is found to be consistent with the predictions based on calculations of the nuclear shape distribution using the newest approach for the treatment of the fission barrier within the liquid drop model. The present study is the first investigation of the giant dipole resonance width from the fusion-evaporation decay channel in this nuclear mass range.
119453196
Search for the Jacobi shape transition in light nuclei
Abstract.The $\gamma$-rays following the reaction 105 MeV 18O + 28Si have been measured using the EUROBALL IV, HECTOR and EUCLIDES arrays in order to investigate the predicted Jacobi shape transition. The high-energy $\gamma$-ray spectrum from the GDR decay indicates the presence of large deformations in the hot 46Ti nucleus, in agreement with new theoretical calculations based on the rotating liquid-drop model.
24677742
Critical frequency in nuclear chiral rotation.
Self-consistent solutions for the so-called planar and chiral rotational bands in 132La are obtained for the first time within the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock cranking approach. It is suggested that the chiral rotation cannot exist below a certain critical frequency which under the approximations used is estimated as Planck's omega(crit) approximately 0.5-0.6 MeV. However, the exact values of Planck's omega(crit) may vary, to an extent, depending on the microscopic model used, in particular, through the pairing correlations and/or calculated equilibrium deformations. The existence of the critical frequency is explained in terms of a simple classical model of two gyroscopes coupled to a triaxial rigid body.
23672287
Superdeformation in the quasicontinuum: Microscopic view of the excited superdeformed bands and the corresponding level densities.
Microscopic calculations of both the normal and the superdeformed rotational bands have been performed for a number of rare earth nuclei. The universal'' Woods-Saxon potential and the extended Strutinsky method have been used. Excited bands up to a prescribed energy limit {ital E}{sup *} (usually 2.5 to 3.5 MeV) have been calculated individually by minimizing the corresponding nuclear energies over the quadrupole and hexadecapole deformations. This turns out to be essential, when comparing with experimental results for the known discrete bands. An important influence of the superdeformed neutron ({ital N}=86) shell closure on the microscopically calculated rotational-level densities is illustrated and discussed.
16534405
Solution of the Skyrme—Hartree—Fock equations in the Cartesian deformed harmonic oscillator basis II. The program HFODD
Abstract We describe a method of solving the nuclear Skyrme-Hartree-Fock problem by using a deformed Cartesian harmonic oscillator basis. The complete list of expressions required to calculate local densities, total energy, and self-consistent fields is presented, and an implementation of the self-consistent symmetries is discussed. Formulas to calculate matrix elements in the Cartesian harmonic oscillator basis are derived for the nuclear and Coulomb interactions.
119356133
The Shears Mechanism in 142Gd in the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock Method with the Tilted-Axis Cranking
We report on the first Skyrme-Hartree-Fock calculations with the tilted-axis cranking in the context of magnetic rotation. The mean field symmetries, differences between phenomenological and self-consistent methods and the generation of shears-like structures in the mean field are discussed. Significant role of the time-odd spin-spin effective interaction is pointed out. We reproduce the shears mechanism, but quantitative agreement with experiment is rather poor. It may have to do with too large core polarization, lack of pairing correlations or properties of the Skyrme force.
119286587
Coupled-channel scattering on a torus
Based on the Hamiltonian formalism approach, a generalized Luscher's formula for two particle scattering in both the elastic and coupled-channel cases in moving frames is derived from a relativistic Lippmann-Schwinger equation. Some strategies for extracting scattering amplitudes for a coupled-channel system from the discrete finite-volume spectrum are discussed and illustrated with a toy model of two-channel resonant scattering. This formalism will, in the near future, be used to extract information about hadron scattering from lattice QCD computations.
123115763
Excited charmonium physics from lattice QCD
Properties of excited mesons are studied using a lattice QCD simulation of a system comparable to charmonium. We extract a spectrum of states, including those with manifestly exotic quantum numbers. Radiative transition form‐factors are also computed, in particular the transition from exotic ηc1 to J/ψγ which is found to be large on the usual scale of magnetic dipole transitions.Properties of excited mesons are studied using a lattice QCD simulation of a system comparable to charmonium. We extract a spectrum of states, including those with manifestly exotic quantum numbers. Radiative transition form‐factors are also computed, in particular the transition from exotic ηc1 to J/ψγ which is found to be large on the usual scale of magnetic dipole transitions.
15927966
Exotic and higher spin mesons in charmonium
Exotic and higher spin (> 1) mesons are still not thoroughly investigated in lattice QCD. Using a set of derivative based operators we report our exploratory study of these mesons in charmonium region. We use a 12{sup 3} x 48 anisotropic (xi = 3) clover lattice with inverse temporal lattice spacing a{sup -1} = 6.05 GeV. Techniques developed in this exploratory study will be utilized in our future comprehensive study of light hybrid mesons that are to be explored in the 12 GeV GlueX experiment at Jefferson Laboratory.
118362230
Triquark-diquark models of a theta(1540)
The enhancement in the flavour exotic NK channel seen by a number of experiments has been interpreted as a resonant pentaquark state, the {Theta}{sup +}(1540). Theoretical efforts to understand its structure, with the aim of explaining both the low mass and small decay width, have thrown up the possibility of a triquark-diquark P-wave correlation. We will discuss the constituent quark model study of Karliner/Lipkin and suggest that their P-wave excitation energy is an underestimate, a more plausible value raising the {Theta} mass in this model to more than 1700 MeV. We also propose on rather general grounds that these correlated quark models give rise to not only exotic baryon states, but also exotic meson states, in particular the strangeness +2, isoscalar {var_theta}{sup +} which will decay to K{sup +} K{sup 0}.
54655904
Excited state baryon spectroscopy from lattice QCD
Here, we present a calculation of the Nucleon and Delta excited state spectrum on dynamical anisotropic clover lattices. A method for operator construction is introduced that allows for the reliable identification of the continuum spins of baryon states, overcoming the reduced symmetry of the cubic lattice. Using this method, we are able to determine a spectrum of single-particle states for spins up to and including J = 7/2, of both parities, the first time this has been achieved in a lattice calculation. We find a spectrum of states identifiable as admixtures of SU(6) Ⓧ O(3) representations and a counting of levels that is consistent with the non-relativistic $qqq$ constituent quark model. This dense spectrum is incompatible with quark-diquark model solutions to the "missing resonance problem" and shows no signs of parity doubling of states.