Microscopic calculations of the electric Quadrupole transition strengths of Be isotopes (9, 10, 12, 14)
Electric Quadrupole transitions are calculated for beryllium isotopes (9, 10, 12 and 14). Calculations with configuration mixing shell model usually under estimate the measured E2 transition strength. Although the consideration of a large basis no core shell model with 2ℏtruncations for 9,10,12 a...
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Electric Quadrupole transitions are calculated for beryllium isotopes (9, 10, 12 and 14). Calculations with configuration mixing shell model usually under estimate the measured E2 transition strength. Although the consideration of a large basis no core shell model with 2ℏtruncations for 9,10,12 and14 where all major shells s, p, sd are used, fail to describe the measured reduced transition strength without normalizing the matrix elements with effective charges to compensate for the discarded space. Instead of using constant effective charges, excitations out of major shell space are taken into account through a microscopic theory which allows particle–hole excitations from the core and model space orbits to all higher orbits with 2ℏw excitations which are called core-polarization effects. The two body Michigan sum of three ranges Yukawa potential (M3Y) is used for the core-polarization matrix element. The simple harmonic oscillator potential is used to generate the single particle matrix elements of all isotopes considered in this work. The b value of each isotope is adjusted to reproduce the experimental matter radius, These size parameters of the harmonic oscillator almost reproduce all the root mean square (rms) matter radii for 9,10,12,14Be isotopes within the experimental errors. Almost same effective charges are obtained for the neutron- rich Be isotopes which are smaller than the standard values. The major contribution to the transition strength comes from the core polarization effects. The present calculations of the neutron-rich 12,14Beisotopes show a deviation from the general trends in accordance with experimental and other theoretical studies. The configurations arises from the shell model calculations with core-polarization effects reproduce the experimental B(E2) values.
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| spelling | doaj.art-5aaa9a0980fe471595eef2f915da2afb2023-03-10T20:58:41ZengUniversity of BaghdadIraqi Journal of Physics2070-40032664-55482019-02-01122410.30723/ijp.v12i24.326Microscopic calculations of the electric Quadrupole transition strengths of Be isotopes (9, 10, 12, 14)Sara. H. Ibrahim Electric Quadrupole transitions are calculated for beryllium isotopes (9, 10, 12 and 14). Calculations with configuration mixing shell model usually under estimate the measured E2 transition strength. Although the consideration of a large basis no core shell model with 2ℏtruncations for 9,10,12 and14 where all major shells s, p, sd are used, fail to describe the measured reduced transition strength without normalizing the matrix elements with effective charges to compensate for the discarded space. Instead of using constant effective charges, excitations out of major shell space are taken into account through a microscopic theory which allows particle–hole excitations from the core and model space orbits to all higher orbits with 2ℏw excitations which are called core-polarization effects. The two body Michigan sum of three ranges Yukawa potential (M3Y) is used for the core-polarization matrix element. The simple harmonic oscillator potential is used to generate the single particle matrix elements of all isotopes considered in this work. The b value of each isotope is adjusted to reproduce the experimental matter radius, These size parameters of the harmonic oscillator almost reproduce all the root mean square (rms) matter radii for 9,10,12,14Be isotopes within the experimental errors. Almost same effective charges are obtained for the neutron- rich Be isotopes which are smaller than the standard values. The major contribution to the transition strength comes from the core polarization effects. The present calculations of the neutron-rich 12,14Beisotopes show a deviation from the general trends in accordance with experimental and other theoretical studies. The configurations arises from the shell model calculations with core-polarization effects reproduce the experimental B(E2) values. https://ijp.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/physics/article/view/326electric Quadrupole, transition strength of exoticnuclei, shell model calculations. |
| spellingShingle | Sara. H. Ibrahim Microscopic calculations of the electric Quadrupole transition strengths of Be isotopes (9, 10, 12, 14) Iraqi Journal of Physics electric Quadrupole, transition strength of exoticnuclei, shell model calculations. |
| title | Microscopic calculations of the electric Quadrupole transition strengths of Be isotopes (9, 10, 12, 14) |
| title_full | Microscopic calculations of the electric Quadrupole transition strengths of Be isotopes (9, 10, 12, 14) |
| title_fullStr | Microscopic calculations of the electric Quadrupole transition strengths of Be isotopes (9, 10, 12, 14) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Microscopic calculations of the electric Quadrupole transition strengths of Be isotopes (9, 10, 12, 14) |
| title_short | Microscopic calculations of the electric Quadrupole transition strengths of Be isotopes (9, 10, 12, 14) |
| title_sort | microscopic calculations of the electric quadrupole transition strengths of be isotopes 9 10 12 14 |
| topic | electric Quadrupole, transition strength of exoticnuclei, shell model calculations. |
| url | https://ijp.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/physics/article/view/326 |
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