Shell evolution in neutron-rich carbon isotopes: Unexpected enhanced role of neutron-neutron correlation
Abstract
Full shell-model diagonalization has been performed to study the structure of neutron-rich nuclei around C. We investigate in detail the roles played by the different monopole components of the effective interaction in the evolution of the N=14 shell in C, N and O isotopes. It is found that the relevant neutron-neutron monopole terms, and , contribute significantly to the reduction of the N=14 shell gap in C and N isotopes in comparison with that in O isotopes. The origin of this unexpectedly large effect, which is comparable with (sometimes even larger than) that caused by the proton-neutron interaction, is related to the enhanced configuration mixing in those nuclei due to many-body correlations. Such a scheme is also supported by the large B(E2) value in the nucleus C which has been measured recently.
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@article{arxiv.1209.5583,
title = {Shell evolution in neutron-rich carbon isotopes: Unexpected enhanced role of neutron-neutron correlation},
author = {Cenxi Yuan and Chong Qi and Furong Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.5583},
year = {2012}
}