Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Impacts of octupole correlations on the low-lying $0^+$ states and two-neutron transfer intensities in rare-earth nuclei are investigated in terms of the interacting boson model that is based on the nuclear density functional theory. The octupole degrees of freedom are not only essential building blocks to describe properties of negative-parity states in the model, but also influence low-spin positive-parity states including excited $0^+$ states. The calculation produces a large number of low-energy $0^+$ states that contain significant amounts of octupole components, indicating important roles played by the octupole degrees freedom in this mass region. Octupole correlations are shown to make sizable contributions to the $(p,t)$ and $(t,p)$ transfer intensities and, in particular, to reproduce the discontinuous changes of these quantities near those nuclei with $N\approx88$ or 90, which are observed experimentally as a signature of the shape phase transition.
Source: Physical Review C
DOI: 10.1103/x7w2-bmvk
Author: Kosuke Nomura
Institution: Hokkaido University
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: 中重核のエキゾチックな変形と稀崩壊の統一的研究
OpenAlex ID: W7148676823