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Review of Gamow-Teller and Fermi Transition Strength Functions

Nuclear Theory 2022-11-07 v1

Abstract

We studied the temperature effect in isospin-singlet pairings in Gamow-Teller excitations. We use theories of a hole-particle in the mean field shell model studied decay transition using the one-particle-one-hole model for the β\beta-decay of odd-even isotopes and the two-particle-hole models for the β\beta-decay of even-even and/or odd-odd isotopes. Our reference isotopes for the one-particle-one-hole model are \ce{^{15}O}, \ce{^{15}N}, \ce{^{17}F}, and \ce{^{41}Sc}, whereas for the two-particle-hole model we use \ce{^{16}N} (for β\beta^--decay) and \ce{^{56}Ni} and \ce{^{40}Sc} (for β+\beta^+/EC). The calculations involve evaluating the matrix elements of Gamow -Teller and Fermi transitions, then calculate the reduced transition probabilities of Gamow-Teller and Fermi, from which we evaluate the half-lives and the strength function ftft. The results are compared with the available experimental data. For one-particle-one-hole model we found there is a deviation from experimental values which indicates that the model is not valid for beta decay for the even-even nuclei in the ground state due to the residual nucleon-nucleon interaction. As for a two-particle-hole model, we calculated the transition amplitude, from which we calculated the strength of the transition logft\log ft values. We found an excellent agreement between experimental and theoretical results. By drawing the relationship between temperature versus logft\log ft values, we found the general trend is that the strength function values slowly decrease as temperatures increases. There are fluctuations logft\log ft due to the strongly dependent of logft\log ft on the shell configuration of the valence nucleons.

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@article{arxiv.2211.02164,
  title  = {Review of Gamow-Teller and Fermi Transition Strength Functions},
  author = {Muna Al-Harby and Bassam A. Shehadeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.02164},
  year   = {2022}
}

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40 pages, 11 figures