Coulomb-Corrected Wormhole Model for Neon-20
Nuclear Theory
2025-08-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Building on the spatial wormhole geometry proposed by Manton and Dunajski, we develop a modified model for the Neon-20 nucleus that incorporates a repulsive Coulomb potential. This reduces the large threshold energy for cluster break-up in the original model and converts most bound states to resonances. We use generalized WKB methods to calculate the energies of bound states, and also the energies and widths of under-barrier and over-barrier resonances. The results align closely with experimental data for the 0_1^+ , 0_1^- and 0_4^+ rotational bands of Neon-20, including the large widths in the higher-nodal 0_4^+ band.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.02428,
title = {Coulomb-Corrected Wormhole Model for Neon-20},
author = {Ruoxin Bai and N. S. Manton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.02428},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
25 pages, 9 figures