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The systematic study of isoscalar (IS) and isovector (IV) giant quadrupole responses (GQR) in normal and superfluid nuclei presented in [G. Scamps and D. Lacroix, Phys. Rev. 88, 044310 (2013)] is extended to the case of axially deformed and…
The Belle and Belle~II experiments have accumulated a combined data set of $1.2~\mathrm{ab}^{-1}$ of $e^+e^- \to B\bar{B}$ collisions at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance. Owing to the clean event environment and the well-constrained…
Background: Effective interactions, either derived from microscopic theories or based on fitting selected properties of nuclei in specific mass regions, are widely used inputs to shell-model studies of nuclei. Until recently, most…
Candidates for three excited states in the 66^Se have been identified using the recoil-{\beta} tagging method together with a veto detector for charged-particle evaporation channels. These results allow a comparison of mirror and triplet…
A calculation of the spectroscopic properties, energy levels and electromagnetic transitions and moments, of the ten nuclei $^{128,130}$Te, $^{128,130}$I, $^{128,130}$Xe, $^{129,131}$I, $^{127,129}$Te within the framework of the interacting…
We discuss L=0 vs L=2 couplings, symmetries of the pairing interaction for neutrons and protons, and the J_{max} interaction. We show that certain schematic interactions yield exponentially decreasing transition strengths.We compare shell…
In this work, we have performed systematic shell-model calculations for Bi isotopes with $A=$ 204-213 using KHH7B and KHM3Y effective interactions. We have reported yrast and non-yrast shell-model states corresponding to the available…
In this work the excited energy levels, reduced transition probabilities, $B(E2)\uparrow$, intrinsic quadrupole moments and deformation parameters have been calculated for $^{62-68}$Zn isotopes with neutrons (N=32,34,36 and 38 ). Nushellx…
Large-scale shell-model calculations were carried out for the half-lives and branching ratios of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{76}$Ge to the ground state and the lowest three excited states $2_1^+$, $0_2^+$ and $2_2^+$ in $^{76}$Se. In…
Cross-section and analyzing power data from 197 MeV $(p,p')$ scattering and longitudinal and transverse form factors for electron scattering to low lying states in $^{10}$B have been analyzed as tests of the structure of the nuclear states…
The spin-orbit splittings in the spectra of nuclei with mass numbers 5, 15 and 17 are studied within the framework of shell-model configuration mixing calculations including 2$\hbar \omega$ excitations. The contributions of the two-body…
A mixed-symmetry nuclear shell-model scheme for carrying out calculations in regimes where there is a competition between two or more modes is proposed. A one-dimensional toy model is used to demonstrate the concept. The theory is then…
Boson creation operators constructed from linear combinations of q- deformed zero coupled nucleon pair operators acting on the nucleus (A,0), are used to derive pp-RPA equations. The solutions of these equations are the pairing vibrations…
It has been shown in the past that in a shell model calculation, restricted to 1Hbar*Omega 1p-1h configurations, the energy splitting between the lowest J=0-, T=0 and J=0-, T=1 states in 16O is mainly due to the tensor component of the…
The subtle interplay between the two nuclear superfluids, isovector T=1 and isoscalar T=0 phases, are investigated in an exactly soluble model. It is shown that T=1 and T=0 pair-modes decouple in the exact calculations with the T=1…
The effects of the final state interaction phenomenon known as colour reconnection are investigated at centre-of-mass energies in the range sqrt(s) ~ 189-209 GeV using the OPAL detector at LEP. Colour reconnection is expected to affect…
A review is presented of the development and current status of nuclear shell-model calculations in which the two-body effective interaction is derived from the free nucleon-nucleon potential. The significant progress made in this field…
We study the response of isovector orbital magnetic dipole (IOMD) transitions to the quadrupole-quadrupole ($Q \cdot Q$) interaction, to the isospin-conserving pairing interaction (ICP) and to combinations of both. We find qualitatively…
The purpose of the work is to evaluate effect of the isovector dipole and quadrupole-octupole modes coupling on the $B(E1;1^-_1\rightarrow 0^+_1)/B(E1;3^-_1\rightarrow 2^+_1)$ ratio. The Hamiltonian of the phenomenological collective model…
The relative ordering of $J^-$ levels of multiplets resulting from two-body excitations, which include a $J^{\pi}=3^-$ state that can contribute to the octupole phonon, are investigated in a simplistic shell-model approach. To calculate the…