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Charge radii and neutron correlations in helium halo nuclei

Nuclear Theory 2015-05-30 v2 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Within the complex-energy configuration interaction framework, we study correlations of valence neutrons to explain the behavior of charge radii in the neutron halo nuclei 6,8^{6,8}He. We find that the experimentally observed decrease of the charge radius between 6^6He and 8^8He is caused by a subtle interplay between three effects: dineutron correlations, a spin-orbit contribution to the charge radius, and a core swelling effect. We demonstrate that two-neutron angular correlations in the 21+2^+_1 resonance of 6^6He differ markedly from the ground-state correlations in 6,8^{6,8}He.

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@article{arxiv.1109.0223,
  title  = {Charge radii and neutron correlations in helium halo nuclei},
  author = {G. Papadimitriou and A. T. Kruppa and N. Michel and W. Nazarewicz and M. Płoszajczak and J. Rotureau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.0223},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures