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Title: Simple phenomenology for the ground-state bands of even-even nuclei

Journal Article · · Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States)
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  1. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta-700 064 (India)

It is observed that the even-even nuclei having identical [ital N][sub [ital p]][ital N][sub [ital n]]/[Delta] values exhibit identical excitation energies and/or energy ratios ([ital E][sub [ital J]]/[ital E][sub 2],[ital E][sub [ital J]]/[ital E][sub 4]) in their ground-state bands (g.s.b.). [ital N][sub [ital p]] ([ital N][sub [ital n]]) is the valence proton (neutron) number and [Delta] is the average pairing gap, ([Delta][sub [ital p]]+[Delta][sub [ital n]])/2. It is shown that this correlation is a manifestation of a very simple but uniform dependence of the excitation energies of the g.s.b. of even-even nuclei, spanning a wide mass region (70[le][ital A][le]244), on the ratio of their pairing and [ital n]-[ital p] interaction energies. An explicit form of this dependence is phenomenologically deduced and subsequently used to study the development of collectivity, existence of subshell closures and some other nuclear systematics.

OSTI ID:
6849303
Journal Information:
Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States), Vol. 50:6; ISSN 0556-2813
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English