A new approach to nuclear level densities: The QRPA plus boson expansion

Nuclear level densities play a key role in many nuclear applications. To go beyond the usual particle-independent approximation, a conceptually new approach based on the boson expansion of QRPA excitations is proposed. The calculated nuclear level densities are shown to follow an energy dependence c...

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Main Authors: S. Hilaire, S. Goriely, S. Péru, G. Gosselin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-08-01
Series:Physics Letters B
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269323003234
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Summary:Nuclear level densities play a key role in many nuclear applications. To go beyond the usual particle-independent approximation, a conceptually new approach based on the boson expansion of QRPA excitations is proposed. The calculated nuclear level densities are shown to follow an energy dependence close to a constant-temperature formula at energies above a few MeV, but present a rather narrow spin distribution. They are shown to provide a quite remarkable agreement with s-wave resonance spacings and Oslo data, at least for the 48 even-even nuclei considered in the present study.
ISSN:0370-2693