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Wednesday·June 17, 2015

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  1. 01

    [Submitted on 16 Jun 2015]

    Isoscalar and neutron modes in the E1 spectra of Ni isotopes and the relevance of shell effects and the continuum

    P. Papakonstantinou · H. Hergert · R. Roth

    We study theoretically the electric dipole transitions of even Ni isotopes at low energies, using the self-consistent quasi-particle random-phase approximation (RPA) with the D1S Gogny interaction and a continuum-RPA model with the SLy4 Skyrme force. We analyze isoscalar states, isovector states, and the dipole polarizability. We define a reference value for the polarizability, to remove a trivial dependence on the mass number. We compare our results with data and other calculations, with a focus on collective states, shell effects, and threshold transitions. Our results support the presence of a strong isoscalar transition, with little or moderate E1 strength, as a universal feature of ordinary nuclei. In moderately neutron-rich Ni isotopes, namely 68Ni and neighboring isotopes, this transition is found bimodal due to couplings with surface neutrons. An adequate treatment of the continuum states appears essential for describing suprathreshold E1 strength, especially beyond 68Ni. Very exotic isotopes (N>50) are found highly polarizable, with practically all their E1 strength in the continuum. The dipole polarizability and the neutron skin thickness are influenced by shell structure in different ways, so they can appear anticorrelated. A comparison with existing results for lighter (Ca) and heavier (Sn) nuclei suggests that the so-called pygmy dipole strength is influenced strongly by shell effects and that, partly for that reason, its isospin structure depends on the mass region.

    Comments:
    14 pages, incl. 10 figures (v2) and 1 table; (v2: clarifications and minor restructuring to improve readability; one extra figure)
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    1506.04841 [pdf]
    PRC(2015)·22 citations
  2. 02

    [Submitted on 16 Jun 2015]

    Microscopic dynamical description of proton-induced fission with the Constrained Molecular Dynamics (CoMD) Model

    N. Vonta · G.A. Souliotis · M. Veselsky · A. Bonasera

    The microscopic description of nuclear fission still remains a topic of intense basic research. Un- derstanding nuclear fission, apart from a theoretical point of view, is of practical importance for energy production and the transmutation of nuclear waste. In nuclear astrophysics, fission sets the upper limit to the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements via the r-process. In this work we initiated a systematic study of intermediate energy proton-induced fission using the Constrained Molecu- lar Dynamics (CoMD) code. The CoMD code implements an effective interaction with a nuclear matter compressibility of K=200 (soft EOS) with several forms of the density dependence of the nucleon-nucleon symmetry potential. Moreover, a constraint is imposed in the phase-space occu- pation for each nucleon restoring the Pauli principle at each time step of the collision. A proper choice of the surface parameter of the effective interaction has been made to describe fission. In this work, we present results of fission calculations for proton-induced reactions on : a) 232 Th at 27 and 63 MeV, b) 235 U at 10, 30, 60 and 100 MeV, and c) 238 U at 100 and 660 MeV. The calculated observables include fission-fragment mass distributions, total fission energies, neutron multiplicities and fission times. These observables are compared to available experimental data. We show that the microscopic CoMD code is able to describe the complicated many-body dynamics of the fission process at intermediate and high energy and give a reasonable estimate of the fission time scale. Sensitivity of the results to the density dependence of the nucleon symmetry potential (and, thus, the nuclear symmetry energy) is found. Further improvements of the code are necessary to achieve a satisfactory description of low energy fission in which shell effects play a dominant role.

    Comments:
    12 pages, 17 figures
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    1506.04844 [pdf]
    PRC(2015)·21 citations
  3. 03

    [Submitted on 16 Jun 2015]

    The unquenched quark model

    Hugo García Tecocoatzi🇲🇽 · Roelof Bijker🇲🇽

    In this contribution, we briefly analyze the formalism of the unquenched quark model (UQM) and its application to the description of several observables of hadrons. In the UQM, the effects of sea pairs are introduced explicitly into the quark model through a QCD-inspired pair-creation mechanism. We present our description of flavour asymmetry and strangeness in the proton when baryon-meson components are included. In the meson sector, the charmonium and bottomonium spectra with self-energy corrections due to the coupling to the meson-meson components .

    Comments:
    6 pages, Talk presented at 38th Symposium on Nuclear Physics, January 6-9 2015, Cocoyoc Morelos (Mexico). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1503.03064
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    1506.05015 [pdf]
    J.Phys.Conf.Ser.(2015)·2 citations
  4. 04

    [Submitted on 15 Jun 2015] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter at the CERN SPS NA61/SHINE experiment

    L. Turko🇵🇱

    The NA61/SHINE experiment performs a detailed study of the onset of deconfinement and search for critical point of hadronic matter by colliding nuclei of different sizes at various beam momenta from 13A to 158A GeV/c. Experimental setup and results on the theoretically expected signatures are discussed.

    Comments:
    6 pages, 8 figures, Talk presented at the International Workshop: Discovery Physics at the LHC -- Kruger 2014, RPA, December 1-6, 2014}, to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    1506.04794 [pdf]
    J.Phys.Conf.Ser.(2015)·1 citation
  5. 05

    [Submitted on 16 Jun 2015] (cross-list from cond-mat.quant-gas)

    Four-boson bound states from a functional renormalisation group

    Benjamin Jaramillo Avila · Michael C. Birse (University of Manchester)

    We use the functional renormalisation group to study the spectrum of three- and four-body states in bosonic systems around the unitary limit. Our effective action includes all energy-independent contact interactions in the four-atom sector and we introduce a running trimer field to eliminate couplings that involve the atom-atom-dimer channel. The results show qualitatively similar behaviour to those from exact approaches. The truncated action we use leads to overbinding of the two four-body states seen in those treatments. It also generates a third state, although only for a very narrow range of two-body scattering lengths.

    Comments:
    4 pages, 2 figures
    Subjects:
    Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); physics.atm-clus (physics.atm-clus)
    arXiv:
    1506.04949 [pdf]
    PRA(2015)·7 citations
  6. 06

    [Submitted on 16 Jun 2015] (cross-list from astro-ph.SR)

    Neutrino-driven winds in the aftermath of a neutron star merger: nucleosynthesis and electromagnetic transients

    Dirk Martin🇩🇪 · Albino Perego🇩🇪 · Almudena Arcones🇩🇪 · Friedrich-Karl Thielemann🇨🇭 · Oleg Korobkin🇸🇪 · Stephan Rosswog🇸🇪

    We present a comprehensive nucleosynthesis study of the neutrino-driven wind in the aftermath of a binary neutron star merger. Our focus is the initial remnant phase when a massive central neutron star is present. Using tracers from a recent hydrodynamical simulation, we determine total masses and integrated abundances to characterize the composition of unbound matter. We find that the nucleosynthetic yields depend sensitively on both the life time of the massive neutron star and the polar angle. Matter in excess of up to becomes unbound until . Due to electron fractions of mainly nuclei with mass numbers are synthesized, complementing the yields from the earlier dynamic ejecta. Mixing scenarios with these two types of ejecta can explain the abundance pattern in r-process enriched metal-poor stars. Additionally, we calculate heating rates for the decay of the freshly produced radioactive isotopes. The resulting light curve peaks in the blue band after about . Furthermore, high opacities due to heavy r-process nuclei in the dynamic ejecta lead to a second peak in the infrared after .

    Comments:
    15 pages, 18 figures, 2 tables, accepted by ApJ
    Subjects:
    Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    1506.05048 [pdf]
    ApJ(2015)·246 citations

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