Weak decay of halo nuclei
Nuclear Theory
2023-07-19 v1 Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
We investigate the weak decay of one-neutron halo nuclei into the proton-core continuum, i.e., beta-delayed proton emission from the halo nucleus using a cluster effective field theory for halo nuclei. On the one hand, we calculate the direct decay into the continuum. On the other hand, we consider the case of resonant final state interactions between the proton and the core. We present our formalism and discuss the application to the decay of Be in detail. Moreover, we compare to recent experimental results for the branching ratio and resonance parameters. As another example, we consider the case of C and predict the branching ratio for beta-delayed proton emission.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.2212.05087,
title = {Weak decay of halo nuclei},
author = {Wael Elkamhawy and Hans-Werner Hammer and Lucas Platter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.05087},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
20 pages, 7 figures