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Dineutron structure in $^{8}$He

Nuclear Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

The ground and excited states of 8^{8}He were investigated with a method of antisymmetrized molecular dynamics(AMD). We adopted effective nuclear interactions which systematically reproduce the binding energies of 4^4He, 6^6He and 8^8He. The ground state of 8^8He has both the jj-jj coupling feature(p3/2p_{3/2} closure) and the LL-SS coupling feature(4^4He+2n+2n+2n+2n) with a slight tail of dineutron at the long distance region. The theoretical results give an indication of the 02+0^+_2 state with dineutron gas-like structure. The dineutron structure, 4^4He+2n2n+2n2n, of this state is similar to the 3α3\alpha-cluster structure of the 12^{12}C(02+0^+_2) state which has been interpreted as an α\alpha condensate state. Since the 8^8He(02+0^+_2) state has a significant overlap with the dineutron condensate wave function where two dineutrons are moving in SS wave around the α\alpha core with a dilute density, we suggest that this theoretically predicted 02+0^+_2 state is a candidate of the dineutron condensate state.

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@article{arxiv.0707.2120,
  title  = {Dineutron structure in $^{8}$He},
  author = {Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.2120},
  year   = {2008}
}

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12 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRC

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