Nuclear Shell Model Calculations for A=49 Isobars

Year 2020, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 3 - 8, 30.06.2020

Serkan Akkoyun

Abstract

One of the common methods used to investigate the nuclear structures of atomic nucleus is the nuclear shell model. As in the case of shell model of atom for electrons, atomic nucleus is assumed to be composed of nuclear shells. Protons and neutrons (nucleons) fill the orbits in the shells according to the quantum mechanical restrictions. Each nucleon moves independently under an average potential created by the others. In the model, a very stable nucleus having nuclear magic numbers for nucleons is considered as inert core. Only valance nucleons outside the core are active in the considered model space and taken into account in the calculations. In the present study, by using nuclear shell model, we have investigated nuclear structure properties of A=49 isobars. Doubly magic 40Ca nucleus was considered as an inert core and fp model space was taken into account for the valance nucleons. For two-body interaction Hamiltonian, different matrix element sets existing in the literature were used. The results have been compared with each other and the available experimental data.

Keywords

Nuclear shell model, nuclear structure, energy level, transition

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