Structures and decay properties of extremely proton-rich nuclei $^{11,12}$O
Abstract
The recent observation of the unbound nucleus O offers the unique possibility to study how the structure and dynamics of two-proton () decay is affected by the removal of one neutron from O, and provides important information on the Thomas-Ehrman effect in the mirror pairs O-Li and O-Be, which involve the emitters O and O. We investigate how continuum effects impact the structure and decay properties of O and O, and their mirror partners. We solve the three-body core-nucleon-nucleon problem using the Gamow coupled-channel (GCC) method. The GCC Hamiltonian employs a realistic finite-range valence nucleon-nucleon interaction and the deformed cores of C, Li, and Be. We calculate the energy spectra and decay widths of O and O as well as those of their mirror nuclei. In particular, we investigate the dynamics of the decay in the ground state of O by analyzing the evolution of the configuration of the emitted protons as well as their angular correlations in the coordinate space. We also show how the analytic structure of the resonant states of Li and N impacts the low-lying states of Li and O. We demonstrate that, in both nuclei O and O, there is a competition between direct and "democratic" ground-state emission. The broad structure observed in O is consistent with four broad resonances, with the predicted ground state strongly influenced by the broad threshold resonant state in N, which is an isobaric analog of the antibound (or virtual) state in Li.
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@article{arxiv.1903.00038,
title = {Structures and decay properties of extremely proton-rich nuclei $^{11,12}$O},
author = {S. M. Wang and W. Nazarewicz and R. J. Charity and L. G. Sobotka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.00038},
year = {2019}
}
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9 pages, 8 figures