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Quadrupole and octupole states in $^{152}$Sm using the proton-neutron interacting boson model

Nuclear Theory 2023-02-22 v1

Abstract

A scheme of solving the proton-neutron interacting boson model (IBM-2) in terms of the SU(3) basis is introduced, by which the IBM-2 coupled with an octupole boson is applied to describe the low-energy structure of the critical point nucleus, 152^{152}Sm. The results indicate that the spectral properties of both the positive-parity bands and negative-parity bands in this nucleus can be well captured by the IBM-2 calculations through a simple Hamiltonian, thus providing an example of the IBM-2 in a unified description of quadrupole and octupole states in a transitional system. In addition, a statistical analysis of the low-spin states in the model is also provided.

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@article{arxiv.2302.07610,
  title  = {Quadrupole and octupole states in $^{152}$Sm using the proton-neutron interacting boson model},
  author = {Bao-Yue Hu and Yu Zhang and Gui-Xiu Na and Sheng-Nan Wang and Wei Teng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.07610},
  year   = {2023}
}