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Half-lives of rp-process waiting point nuclei

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We give results of microscopic calculations for the half-lives of various proton-rich nuclei in the mass region A=60-90, which are involved in the astrophysical rp-process, and which are needed as input parameters of numerical simulations in Nuclear Astrophysics. The microscopic formalism consists of a deformed QRPA approach that involves a selfconsistent quasiparticle deformed Skyrme Hartree-Fock basis and residual spin-isospin separable forces in both the particle-hole and particle-particle channels. The strength of the particle-hole residual interaction is chosen to be consistent with the Skyrme effective force and mean field basis, while that of the particle-particle is globally fixed to 0.07 MeV after a judicious choice from comparison to experimental half-lives. We study and discuss the sensitivity of the half-lives to deformation and residual interactions.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0503079,
  title  = {Half-lives of rp-process waiting point nuclei},
  author = {P. Sarriguren and R. Alvarez-Rodriguez and E. Moya de Guerra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0503079},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Eur. Phys. J. A