Microscopic shell-model counterpart of the Bohr-Mottelson model

TL;DR

This paper establishes a microscopic shell-model equivalent of the Bohr-Mottelson model by embedding it within the proton-neutron symplectic framework, revealing new algebraic structures and solvable limits.

Contribution

It introduces a shell-model counterpart to the Bohr-Mottelson model using the PNSM with an $SU(1,1) imes SO(6)$ basis, connecting collective and microscopic nuclear models.

Findings

Identifies a six-dimensional subspace related to the Bohr-Mottelson model

Shows the existence of microscopic counterparts to solvable limits of the collective model

Recovers the original Wilets-Jean dynamics for closed-shell nuclei

Abstract

In the present paper we demonstrate that there exists a fully microscopic shell-model counterpart of the Bohr-Mottelson model by embedding the latter in the microscopic shell-model theory of atomic nucleus within the framework of the recently proposed fully microscopic proton-neutron symplectic model (PNSM). For this purpose, another shell-model coupling scheme of the PNSM is considered in which the basis states are classified by the algebraic structure $SU(1,1) \otimes SO(6)$. It is shown that the configuration space of the PNSM contains a six-dimensional subspace that is closely related to the configuration space of the generalized quadrupole-monopole Bohr-Mottelson model and its dynamics splits into radial and orbital motions. The group $SO(6)$ acting in this space, in contrast, e.g., to popular IBM, contains an $SU(3)$ subgroup which allows to introduce microscopic shell-model counterparts of the exactly solvable limits of the Bohr-Mottelson model that closely parallel the relationship of the original Wilets-Jean and rotor models. The Wilets-Jean-type dynamics in the present approach, in contrast to the original collective model formulation, is governed by the microscopic shell-model intrinsic structure of the symplectic bandhead which defines the relevant Pauli allowed $SO(6)$, and hence $SU(3)$, subrepresentations. The original Wilets-Jean dynamics of the generalized Bohr-Mottelson model is recovered for the case of closed-shell nuclei, for which the symplectic bandhead structure is trivially reduced to the scalar or equivalent to it irreducible representation.