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Shell-model calculation of isospin-symmetry breaking correction to superallowed Fermi beta-decay

Nuclear Theory 2016-12-26 v2

Abstract

We investigate the radial-overlap part of the isospin-symmetry breaking correction to superallowed 0+0+0^+\to 0^+-decay using the shell-model approach similar to that of Refs. [1, 2]. The 8 sd-shell emitters with masses between A=22A=22 and A=38A=38 have been re-examined. The Fermi matrix element is evaluated with realistic spherical single-particle wave functions, obtained from spherical Woods-Saxon (WS) or Hartree-Fock (HF) potentials, fine-tuned to reproduce the experimental data on charge radii and separation energies for nuclei of interest. The elaborated adjustment procedure removes any sensitivity of the correction to a specific parametrisation of the WS potential or to various versions of the Skyrme interaction. The present results are generally in good agreement with those reported in Refs. [3, 4]. At the same time, we find that the calculations with HF wave functions result in systematically lower values of the correction.

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@article{arxiv.1612.06004,
  title  = {Shell-model calculation of isospin-symmetry breaking correction to superallowed Fermi beta-decay},
  author = {L. Xayavong and N. A. Smirnova and M. Bender and K. Bennaceur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06004},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Poster presented at the XXIII Nuclear Physics Workshop "Marie & Pierre Curie", Kazimierz, Poland, September 27 to 2 October, 2016