No-core shell model for 48-Ca, 48-Sc and 48-Ti

Jul, 2006
19 pages
Published in:
  • J.Phys.G 36 (2009) 085103
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Report number:
  • UCRL-JRNL-207489

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Abstract:
We report the first no-core shell model results for 48Ca^{48}Ca, 48Sc^{48}Sc and 48Ti^{48}Ti with derived and modified two-body Hamiltonians. We use an oscillator basis with a limited Ω\hbar\Omega range around 45/A1/325/A2/3=10.5MeV45/A^{1/3}-25/A^{2/3} = 10.5 MeV and a limited model space up to 1 Ω1~\hbar\Omega. No single-particle energies are used. We find that the charge dependence of the bulk binding energy of eight A=48 nuclei is reasonably described with an effective Hamiltonian derived from the CD-Bonn interaction while there is an overall underbinding by about 0.4 MeV/nucleon. However, resulting spectra exhibit deficiencies that are anticipated due to: (1) basis space limitations and/or the absence of effective many-body interactions: and, (2) the absence of genuine three-nucleon interactions. We then introduce additive isospin-dependent central terms plus a tensor force to our Hamiltonian and achieve accurate binding energies and reasonable spectra for all three nuclei. The resulting no-core shell model opens a path for applications to the double-beta (ββ\beta\beta) decay process.