A microscopic nuclear collective rotation-vibration model: 2D submodel

TL;DR

This paper introduces a microscopic 2D rotation-vibration model for deformed nuclei, extending previous models to include interactions and providing closed-form solutions that align well with experimental data.

Contribution

It develops a self-consistent, microscopic 2D rotation-vibration model for nuclei, improving upon previous phenomenological models with new interactions and exact solutions.

Findings

Ground-state rotational energies match experimental data

Quadrupole moments agree with measurements

Electric transition probabilities are accurately predicted

Abstract

We develop in this article a microscopic version of the successful phenomenological hydrodynamic Bohr-Davydov-Faessler-Greiner (BDFG) model for the collective rotation-vibration motion of a deformed nucleus. The model derivation is not limited to small oscillation amplitudes. The model generalizes the author's previous model to include interaction between collective oscillations in each pair of spatial directions, and to remove many of the previous-model approximations. To derive the model, the nuclear Schrodinger equation is canonically transformed to collective coordinates and then linearized using a constrained variational method. The associated transformation constraints are imposed on the wavefunction and not on the particle co-ordinates. This approach yields four self-consistent, time-reversal invariant, cranking-type Schrodinger equations for the rotation-vibration and intrinsic motions, and a self-consistency equation. To facilitate comparison with the BDFG model, simplify the solution of the equations, and gain physical insight, we restrict in this article the collective oscillations to only two space dimensions. For harmonic oscillator mean-field potentials, the equations are then solved in closed forms and applied to the ground-state rotational bands in some even-even light and rare-earth nuclei. The computed ground-state rotational band excitation energy, quadrupole moment and electric quadrupole transition probabilities are found to agree favourably with measured data and the results from mean-field, Sp(3,R), and SU(3) models.