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Structural properties of nuclei with semi-magic number N(Z)=40

Nuclear Theory 2021-08-04 v1

Abstract

Various ground state properties are explored for full isotonic(isotopic) chain of neutron number N(proton number Z)==40 using different families of Relativistic Mean-Field theory. Several properties such as nucleon separation energies, pairing energies, deformation, radii and nucleon density distributions are evaluated and compared with the experimental data as well as those from other microscopic and macroscopic models. N==40 isotonic chain presents ample of support for the neutron magicity and articulates double magicity in recently discovered 60^{60}Ca and 68^{68}Ni. Our results are in close conformity with recently measured value of charge radius of 68^{68}Ni [S. Kaufmann \textit{et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 132502 (2020)] which supports the N==40 magicity. Contrarily, Zr isotopes (Z==40) display variety of shapes leading to the phenomenon of shape transitions and shape co-existence. The role of 3s1/2_{1/2} state, which leads to central depletion if unoccupied, is also investigated. 1656^{56}_{16}S and 40122^{122}_{40}Zr are found to be doubly bubble nuclei.

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@article{arxiv.2108.01631,
  title  = {Structural properties of nuclei with semi-magic number N(Z)=40},
  author = {R. Sharma and A. Jain and M. Kaushik and S. K. Jain and G. Saxena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.01631},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Accepted in Int. J. Mod. Phys. E. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1705.03315 by other authors