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Total-Routhian-Surface calculations have been performed to investigate the shape evolutions of $A\sim80$ nuclei, $^{80-84}$Zr, $^{76-80}$Sr and $^{84,86}$Mo. Shape coexistences of spherical, prolate and oblate deformations have been found…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 S. J. Zheng , F. R. Xu , S. F. Shen , H. L. Liu , R. Wyss

The mass region with A~100 and Z~40 is known to experience a sudden onset of deformation. The presence of the subshell closure $Z=40$ makes feasible to create particle-hole excitations at a moderate excitation energy and, therefore, likely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-30 J. E. Garcia-Ramos , K. Heyde

The shape of a nucleus is one of fundamental nuclear properties. We perform a systematic investigation of bubble nuclei that also exhibit shape coexistence in Hf, W, Os, Pt and Hg even-even isotopes using the deformed relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Yong-Beom Choi , Chang-Hwan Lee , Myeong-Hwan Mun , Youngman Kim

A quantitative analysis of the evolution of nuclear shapes and shape phase transitions, including regions of short-lived nuclei that are becoming accessible in experiments at radioactive-beam facilities, necessitate accurate modeling of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Zhipan Li , Tamara Niksic , Dario Vretenar

Self-consistent proton-neutron quasiparticle random phase approximation based on the spherical nonlinear point-coupling relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory is established and used to investigate the $\beta^+$/EC-decay half-lives of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-27 Z. M. Niu , Y. F. Niu , Q. Liu , H. Z. Liang , J. Y. Guo

We investigate ground states properties of Pb isotopes located between neutron and proton drip-lines estimated by two-neutron (two-proton) separation energies and Fermi energies within the deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Seonghyun Kim , Myeong-Hwan Mun , Myung-Ki Cheoun , Eunja Ha

We reexamine the nuclear structure properties of waiting point nuclei around A70 using the interacting boson model 1 (IBM 1) and the relativistic mean field (RMF) model. Effective density dependent meson exchange functional (DD ME2) and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Jameel-Un Nabi , Tuncay Bayram , Mahmut Boyukata , Asim Ullah , Anes Hayder , Syeda Zainab Naqvi

Evolution and coexistence of shape and the related spectroscopic properties of even-even Te isotopes are investigated within the quadrupole collective model that is based on the nuclear density functional theory. By means of the constrained…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-06 K. Suzuki , K. Nomura

In this theoretical study, we report an investigation on the behavior of two neutron separation energy, differential variation of the separation energy and the abnormality in nuclear charge radius along the isotopic and isotonic chains of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-01 M. Bhuyan

We explore the possibility of shape transitions in proton-neutron systems driven by deformation differences between proton and neutron fluids. Within the framework of the proton-neutron interacting boson model, we show that such dynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Serdar Kuyucak , Ka-Hae Kim , Takaharu Otsuka

Background: Recently, transition quadrupole moments in rotational bands of even-mass neutron-rich isotopes of molybdenum and ruthenium nuclei have been measured. The new data have provided a challenge for theoretical descriptions invoking…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Chunli Zhang , Gowhar Bhat , Witek Nazarewicz , Javid Sheikh , Yue Shi

We examine the coexistence of spherical and $\gamma$-unstable deformed nuclear shapes, described by an SO(5)-invariant Bohr Hamiltonian, along the critical-line. Calculations are performed in the Algebraic Collective Model by introducing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-06 P. E. Georgoudis , A. Leviatan

The goal of this contribution is to analyze the connection between shape coexistence and quantum phase transition, two seemingly unrelated phenomena that share common aspects, namely, the rapid change in the ground state structure along an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 J. E. García-Ramos , K. Heyde

Systematics of B(E2) transition rates connecting the first excited 0+ state to the first excited 2+ state of the ground state band in even-even nuclei indicates that shape coexistence of the ground state band and the first excited K=0 band…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-29 Dennis Bonatsos , Andriana Martinou , S. K. Peroulis , T. J. Mertzimekis , N. Minkov

[Background] $\beta$-decay half-life is sensitive to the shell structure near the Fermi levels. Nuclear deformation thus impacts the $\beta$-decay properties. [Purpose] A first-order shape-phase transition in neutron-rich Zr isotopes is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-19 Kenichi Yoshida , Yifei Niu , Futoshi Minato

In this work, we have analyzed the nuclear structure and several prospective decay characteristics of the $^{240-259}$Es$_{99}$ isotopes. For this we use Relativistic Mean Field model (RMF) with NL-SH and NL3* force parameter in an axially…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-07 C. Dash , A. Anupam , I. Naik , B. K. Sharma , B. B. Sahu

Background: Shape coexistence in heavy nuclei poses a strong challenge to state-of-the-art nuclear models, where several competing shape minima are found close to the ground state. A classic region for investigating this phenomenon is in…

Shape coexistence has been a subject of great interest in nuclear physics for many decades. In the context of the nuclear shell model, intruder excitations may give rise to remarkably low-lying excited $0^+$ states associated with different…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-17 K. Nomura , T. Otsuka , P. Van Isacker

Shape coexistence problems in N=14 isotones are studied with a microscopic method of antisymmetrized molecular dynamics. The present calculations reproduce features of deformation in 28Si, and predict possible shape coexistence of neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Y. Kanada-En'yo

The $N=Z=36$ nucleus $^{72}$Kr has been studied by inelastic scattering at intermediate energies. Two targets, $^{9}$Be and $^{197}$Au, were used to extract the nuclear deformation length, $\delta_\text{N}$, and the reduced $E2$ transition…