Dominance of pair correlation in the asymptotic tail of neutron halo
Ying Zhang 氏
新潟大学
日時: 2013年7月9日(火) 15:00
場所: 理学研究科合同B棟(旧名称:理学総合棟)7階 721号室
Abstract:
With the operation of the worldwide new radioactive ion beam facilities
and the developments in the detection techniques, entirely unexpected
features have been found in the unstable neutron-rich nuclei far from
the stability line, e.g., the neutron halo structure.
The main characteristic of the halo is a long tail in the
nuclear density distribution. In the single-particle picture, the
asymptotic tail of the density is described in terms of the binding
energy of the last bound single-particle orbit.
This is true without the pair correlation between the nucleons.
However, pair correlation is known to play an important role in the
formation of the neutron halo structure.
In this talk, we will discuss the explicit effect of the pair
correlation on the asymptotic tails of the diffusive neutron
density and pair density or the pairingtensor, which represents
the condensate of the nucleon pair distribution, in the
neutron rich nuclei.
We would like to clarify what mechanism governs the asymptotic
slope of these densities and what are their key compositions.
We apply the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) theory, which can properly
describe the pairing properties in the neutron-rich nucleus.
We will demonstrate that in the extremely weakly bound nucleus,
the non-resonant continuum state, instead of the weakly bound
or resonant single-particle states around the Fermi energy,
will dominate the asymptotic tail of the neutron density due to
the pair correlation. For the pair density, we find a ‘universal’
asymptotic tail, whose exponential slope is determined only by
the Fermi energy. This slope holds for the nucleus no matter
it is deeply or weakly bound. We also find that the high angular
momentum partial waves are important compositions in the pair density.
The slope and the high angular momentum composition of the pair density
indicate that a spatially correlated
Cooper pair, whose binding energy is the two-neutron separation energy,
penetrates far outside the nucleus.