3–5 Apr 2008
RIKEN Nishina Center
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Deformation around neutron-rich Cr isotopes in axially symmetric Skyrme-Hatree-Fock-Bogoliubov method

3 Apr 2008, 17:00
20m
Nishina Hall (RIKEN Nishina Center)

Nishina Hall

RIKEN Nishina Center

RIKEN Wako, Japan
Presentation Exotic deformation / new collective motion at low and high spin Collectivities and Shell effects in neutron/proton-rich nuclei

Speaker

Mr Hiroshi Oba (Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University)

Description

Recent experiments on the neutron rich Cr isotopes with N=36,38 suggest a new region of quadrupole deformation[1][2]. In this presentation we analyse the deformation mechanism in this region by means of a deformed Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov code based on a 2D mesh representation in the cylindrical coordinate system assuming axial symmetric deformations[3]. It is found that when we adopt the Skyrme parameter set SkM* the deformation energy curves in the isotopes N=32-44 exhibit an onset of a large quadrupole deformation around N$\sim\$38-42, but the potential energy surface is quite flat up to $\beta \sim$0.3. From analysis of the neutron Nilsson diagram obtained with constrained HFB calculation, we found that the deformation is sensitive to the N=38 deformed gap which arises from the down-sloping $\nu$g9/2 orbits. However the Fe (Z=26) isotopes with the same neutron number show a similarly soft potential but with smaller deformation, and the Ti isotopes (Z=22) do not exhibit deformation, indicating a combined effect of protons and neutrons. By comparing with other Skyrme parameter sets, we shall demonstrate that the deformation in this region emerges as a consequence of a delicate competition between spherical and deformed configurations, which is governed by the position of $\nu$g9/2. The deformation properties in the n-rich Cr isotopes provide us with a rather strong constraint for a proper choice of the Skyrme parameter sets. References: [1] O. Sorlin et al., Eur. Phys. J. A16. 55(2003). [2] N. Aoi et al., Nucl. Phys. A in press. [3] H. Oba, M. Matsuo, preprint 2008 Feb.

Primary authors

Mr Hiroshi Oba (Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University) Prof. Masayuki Matsuo (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science Niigata University)

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