Impact of two-body currents on magnetic dipole moments of nuclei

Abstract

We investigate the effects of two-body currents on magnetic dipole moments of medium-mass and heavy nuclei using the valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group with chiral effective field theory interactions and currents. Focusing on near doubly magic nuclei from oxygen to bismuth, we have found that the leading two-body currents globally improve the agreement with experimental magnetic moments. Moreover, our results show the importance of multi-shell effects for ${}^{41}$Ca, which suggest that the $Z=N=20$ gap in ${}^{40}$Ca is not as robust as in ${}^{48}$Ca. The increasing contribution of two-body currents in heavier systems is explained by the operator structure of the center-of-mass dependent Sachs term.

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, supplemental material included