Be7 and Li7 nuclei within the no-core shell model with continuum

Vorabbi, Matteo; Navrátil, Petr; Quaglioni, Sofia; Hupin, Guillaume

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.100.024304

${}^{7}{Be}$ and ${}^{7}{Li}$ nuclei within the no-core shell model with continuum

Journal Article · Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Physical Review C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.100.024304· OSTI ID:1561456

^[1]; Navrátil, Petr ^[1]; Quaglioni, Sofia ^[2]; ^[3]

TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Univ. of Paris-Sud, Orsay (France). Inst. of Nuclear Physics

The production of $^7Be$ and $^7Li$ nuclei plays an important role in primordial nucleosynthesis, nuclear astrophysics, and fusion energy generation. The $^3He(α,γ) ^7Be$ and $^3H(α,γ) 7Li$ radiative-capture processes are important to determine the $^7Li$ abundance in the early universe and to predict the correct fraction of $pp$ -chain branches resulting in $^7Be$ versus $^8B$ neutrinos. The $^6Li(p,γ) ^7Be$ has been investigated recently hinting at a possible cross section enhancement near the threshold. The $^6Li (n,^3H) ^4He$ process can be utilized for tritium breeding in machines dedicated to fusion energy generation through the deuteron-tritium reaction, and is a neutron cross section standard used in the measurement and evaluation of fission cross sections. In this work we study the properties of $^7Be$ and $^7Li$ within the no-core shell model with continuum (NCSMC) method, using chiral nucleon-nucleon interactions as the only input, and analyze all the binary mass partitions involved in the formation of these systems. The NCSMC is an ab initio method applicable to light nuclei that provides a unified description of bound and scattering states and thus is well suited to investigate systems with many resonances and pronounced clustering like $^7Be$ and $^7Li$. Our calculations reproduce all the experimentally known states of the two systems and provide predictions for several new resonances of both parities. Some of these new possible resonances are built on the ground states of $^6Li$ and $^6He$, and thus represent a robust prediction. We do not find any resonance in the $p + ^6Li$ mass partition near the threshold. On the other hand, in the $p + ^6He$ mass partition of $^7Li$ we observe an $$S$$ -wave resonance near the threshold producing a very pronounced peak in the calculated $$S$$ factor of the $^6He (p,γ)$ $^7Li$ radiative-capture reaction. While we do not find a resonance near the threshold in the $p + ^6Li$ channel, in the case of $^6He + p$ reaction a resonant S -wave state is predicted at a very low energy above the reaction threshold, which could be relevant for astrophysics and its implications should be investigated. We note though that this state lies above the three-body breakup threshold not included in our method and may be influenced by three-body continuum correlations.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

OSTI ID:: 1561456

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1547964

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL--777984; 971810

Journal Information:: Physical Review C, Journal Name: Physical Review C Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 100; ISSN 2469-9985

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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