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Broken mirror symmetry in $^{36}$S and $^{36}$Ca

Nuclear Theory 2018-09-14 v1

Abstract

Shape coexistence is an ubiquitous phenomenon in the neutron-rich nuclei belonging to (or sitting at the shores of) the N=20N=20 Island of Inversion (IoI). Exact isospin symmetry predicts the same behaviour for their mirrors and the existence of a proton-rich IoI around Z=20Z=20, centred in the (surely unbound) nucleus 32^{32}Ca. In this article we show that in 36^{36}Ca and 36^{36}S, Coulomb effects break dramatically the mirror symmetry in the excitation energies, due to the different structures of the intruder and normal states. The Mirror Energy Difference (MED) of their 2+^+ states is known to be very large at -246 keV. We reproduce this value and predict the first excited state in 36^{36}Ca to be a 0+^+ at 2.7 MeV, 250 keV below the first 2+^+. In its mirror 36^{36}S the 0+^+ lies at 55 keV above the 2+^+ measured at 3.291 MeV. Our calculations predict a huge MED of -720 keV, that we dub "Colossal" Mirror Energy Difference (CMED). A possible reaction mechanism to access the 02+^+_2 in 36^{36}Ca will be discussed. In addition, we theoretically address the MED's of the A=34A=34 T=3T=3 and A=32A=32 T=4T=4 mirrors.

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@article{arxiv.1809.04902,
  title  = {Broken mirror symmetry in $^{36}$S and $^{36}$Ca},
  author = {J. J. Valiente-Dobón and A. Poves and A. Gadea and B. Fernández-Domínguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.04902},
  year   = {2018}
}