Coulomb renormalization and ratio of proton and neutron asymptotic normalization coefficients for mirror nuclei

TL;DR

This paper investigates Coulomb renormalization effects on asymptotic normalization coefficients (ANCs) in mirror nuclei, providing a method to accurately predict their ratios and highlighting the importance of Coulomb effects in nuclear structure and reactions.

Contribution

It introduces a new approach using the Pinkston-Satchler equation to relate proton and neutron ANCs in mirror nuclei, accounting for Coulomb renormalization effects.

Findings

The ratio of proton to neutron ANCs is independent of channel radius.

Coulomb renormalization significantly affects ANC ratios.

The method applies to both bound states and resonances.

Abstract

Asymptotic normalization coefficients (ANCs) are fundamental nuclear constants playing important role in nuclear reactions, nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics. In this paper the physical reasons of the Coulomb renormalization of the ANC are addressed. Using Pinkston-Satchler equation the ratio for the proton and neutron ANCs of mirror nuclei is obtained in terms of the Wronskians from the radial overlap functions and regular solutions of the two-body Schr\"odinger equation with the short-range interaction excluded. This ratio allows one to use microscopic overlap functions for mirror nuclei in the internal region, where they are the most accurate, to correctly predict the ratio of the ANCs for mirror nuclei, which determine the amplitudes of the tails of the overlap functions. Calculations presented for different nuclei demonstrate the Coulomb renormalization effects and independence of the ratio of the nucleon ANCs for mirror nuclei on the channel radius. This ratio is valid both for bound states and resonances. One of the goals of this paper is to draw attention on the possibility to use the Coulomb renormalized ANCs rather than the standard ones especially when the standard ANCs are too large.