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Possible Shape Coexistence and Magnetic Dipole Transitions in $^{17}$C and $^{21}$Ne

Nuclear Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Magnetic dipole(M1) transitions of N=11 nuclei, 17^{17}C and 21^{21}Ne are investigated by using shell model and deformed Skyrme Hartree-Fock+blocked BCS wave functions. Shell model calculations predict well observed energy spectra and magnetic dipole transitions in 21^{21}Ne, while the results are rather poor to predict these observables in 17^{17}C. In the deformed HF calculations, the ground states of two nuclei are shown to have large prolate deformations close to β2\beta_2=0.4. It is also pointed out that the first Kπ=1/2+K^{\pi}=1/2^+ state in 21^{21}Ne is prolately deformed, while the first Kπ=1/2+K^{\pi}=1/2^+ state in 17^{17}C is predicted to have a large oblate deformation being close to the ground state in energy, We point out that experimentally observed large hindrance of M1 transition between Iπ=1/2+I^{\pi}=1/2^+ and 3/2+3/2^+ in 17^{17}C can be attributed to a shape coexistence near the ground state of 17^{17}C.

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@article{arxiv.0810.2363,
  title  = {Possible Shape Coexistence and Magnetic Dipole Transitions in $^{17}$C and $^{21}$Ne},
  author = {H. Sagawa and X. R. Zhou and Toshio Suzuki and N. Yoshida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2363},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

5pages, 1figure. Phys. Rev. C, rapid communications, in press