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Multistep shell model in the complex energy plane

Nuclear Theory 2012-03-09 v1

Abstract

We have adopted the multistep shell model in the complex energy plane to study nuclear excitations occurring in the continuum part of the spectrum. In this method one proceeds by solving the shell model equations in a successive manner. That is, in each step one constructs the building blocks to be used in future steps. We applied this formalism to analyze the unbound nuclei 12,13^{12,13}Li starting from the one-particle states in 10^{10}Li and two-particle states in 11^{11}Li. In the former case the excitations correspond to the motion of three particles partitioned as the product of a one-particle and two-particle systems. The ground state of 12^{12}Li is thus calculated to be an antibound (virtual) state. In the four-particle system 13^{13}Li the states can be constructed as the coupling of two correlated pairs. We found that there is no bound or antibound state in 13^{13}Li.

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@article{arxiv.1202.3920,
  title  = {Multistep shell model in the complex energy plane},
  author = {Z. X. Xu and C. Qi and R. J. Liotta and R. Wyss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.3920},
  year   = {2012}
}

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10 pages, 2 table, 3 figures, Proceedings of the Conference on Advanced Many-Body and Statistical Methods in Mesoscopic Systems, Constanta, Romania, June 27th - July 2nd 2011. To appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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