Giant neutron halos in the non-relativistic mean field approach

Journal Article · Fri Dec 15 04:00:00 EST 2006 · Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVC.74.064317· OSTI ID:20864205

Grasso, M ^[1]; Yoshida, S ^[1]; Sandulescu, N ^[2]; Van Giai, N ^[1]

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1. Institut de Physique Nucleaire, 15 rue Georges Clemenceau, F-91406 Orsay Cedex (France)
2. Service de Physique Nucleaire, CEA-DAM Ile-de-France, BP 12, F-91680 Bruyeres-le-Cha circumflex tel (France)

Giant neutron halos in medium-heavy nuclei are studied in the framework of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) approach with Skyrme interactions. The appearance of such structures depends sensitively on the effective interaction adopted. This is illustrated by comparing the predictions of SLy4 and SkI4 in the Ca and Zr isotopic chains. The latter force predicts a neutron halo in the Zr chain with A>122 due to the weakly bound orbitals 3p1/2 and 3p3/2. It is found that the energies of states near the separation threshold depend sensitively on effective mass values. The structure of the halo is analyzed in terms of the occupation probabilities of these orbitals and their partial contributions to the neutron density. The antihalo effect is also discussed in the case of {sup 124}Zr by comparing the occupation probabilities and wave functions of the Hartree-Fock neutron single-particle states near the Fermi energy with the corresponding HFB quasiparticle states.

• OSTI ID: 20864205
• Journal Information: Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Journal Name: Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 74; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
CALCIUM ISOTOPES
EFFECTIVE MASS
HARTREE-FOCK METHOD
HARTREE-FOCK-BOGOLYUBOV THEORY
HEAVY NUCLEI
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
MEAN-FIELD THEORY
NEUTRON DENSITY
NEUTRONS
NUCLEAR HALOS
PROBABILITY
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
SINGLE-PARTICLE MODEL
SKYRME POTENTIAL
WAVE FUNCTIONS
ZIRCONIUM ISOTOPES