Microscopic analysis of T=1 and T=0 proton-neutron correlations in $N=Z$ nuclei

Abstract

The competition between the isovector (T=1) and isoscalar (T=0) proton-neutron ($p-n$) correlations in $N=Z$ nuclei is investigated by calculating their correlation energies with a realistic effective interaction which reproduces observed nuclear properties very well, in a strict shell model treatment. It is shown in the realistic shell model that the double-differences of binding energies $(B(A+pn:T)+B(A)-B(A+p)-B(A+n))$ ($B(A)$ being the binding energy) are good indicators of the T=1 and T=0 $p-n$ correlations. Each of them, however, originates in plural kinds of correlations with T=1 or T=0.

Comments: 9pages, 3figures, accepted for publication in Nuclear Pyhsics A