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Ab initio study of the beryllium isotopes $^{7}$Be to $^{12}$Be

Nuclear Theory 2025-04-29 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We present a systematic ab initio study of the low-lying states in beryllium isotopes from 7Be to 12Be using nuclear lattice effective field theory with the N3LO interaction. Our calculations achieve good agreement with experimental data for energies, radii, and electromagnetic properties. We introduce a novel, model-independent method to quantify nuclear shapes, uncovering a distinct pattern in the interplay between positive and negative parity states across the isotopic chain. By combining Monte Carlo sampling of the many-body density operator with a novel nucleon-grouping algorithm, the prominent two-center cluster structures, the emergence of one-neutron halo, complex nuclear molecular dynamics such as {\pi} orbital and {\sigma} orbital, emerge naturally.

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@article{arxiv.2411.14935,
  title  = {Ab initio study of the beryllium isotopes $^{7}$Be to $^{12}$Be},
  author = {Shihang Shen and Serdar Elhatisari and Dean Lee and Ulf-G. Meißner and Zhengxue Ren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.14935},
  year   = {2025}
}

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7+9 pages, 4+5 figures