d3/2 hole states in scandium isotopes

Hole states in scandium isotopes are investigated by coupling a d3/2 hole to low-lying states of the neighboring titanium isotopes. Titanium wave functions are obtained by angular momentum projection from 1f2p-shell Hartree–Fock intrinsic states, and diagonalizations are carried out using the Gillet and Sanderson particle–hole interaction. The binding energies of the 3/2 + states in 43Sc, 45Sc, and 47Sc are well reproduced, as is the spacing between higher-spin levels of the K = 3/2 bands, and the polarization of the titanium cores has approximately the magnitude needed to account for the long M2 lifetimes. The model fails to give any low-lying hole states in 44Sc, but a calculation of spectroscopic factors does account for the absence of observable l = 2 strength below 1.6 MeV in the 43Ca(3He,d)44Sc reaction.