scholarly journals LIFETIME OF 26S AND A LIMIT FOR ITS 2p DECAY ENERGY

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (06) ◽  
pp. 1491-1508 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. FOMICHEV ◽  
I. G. MUKHA ◽  
S. V. STEPANTSOV ◽  
L. V. GRIGORENKO ◽  
E. V. LITVINOVA ◽  
...  

The unknown isotope 26 S , expected to decay by two-proton (2p) emission, was studied theoretically and searched experimentally. The structure of this nucleus was examined within the relativistic mean field (RMF) approach. A method for taking into account the many-body structure in the three-body decay calculations was developed. The results of the RMF calculations were used as an input for the three-cluster decay model optimized for the study of a possible 2p decay branch of this nucleus. The experimental search for 26 S was performed by fragmentation of a 50.3 A MeV 32 S beam. No events of a particle-stable 26 S or 25 P (a presumably proton-unstable subsystem of 26 S ) were observed. Based on the obtained production systematics, an upper half-life limit of T1/2<79 ns was established from the time-of-flight through the fragment separator. Together with the theoretical lifetime estimates for two-proton decay, this gives a decay energy limit of Q2p>640 keV for 26 S . Analogous limits for 25 P are found as T1/2 < 38 ns and Qp>110 keV . In the case that the one-proton emission is the main branch of the 26 S decay, a limit Q2p>230 keV would follow for this nucleus. According to these limits, it is likely that 26 S resides in the picosecond lifetime range.

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 1740025 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Speth ◽  
N. Lyutorovich

Many-body Green functions are a very efficient formulation of the many-body problem. We review the application of this method to nuclear physics problems. The formulas which can be derived are of general applicability, e.g., in self-consistent as well as in nonself-consistent calculations. With the help of the Landau renormalization, one obtains relations without any approximations. This allows to apply conservation laws which lead to important general relations. We investigate the one-body and two-body Green functions as well as the three-body Green function and discuss their connection to nuclear observables. The generalization to systems with pair correlations are also presented. Numerical examples are compared with experimental data.


2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (44) ◽  
pp. 27231-27237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssef Kora ◽  
Massimo Boninsegni ◽  
Dam Thanh Son ◽  
Shiwei Zhang

We present a comprehensive theoretical study of the phase diagram of a system of many Bose particles interacting with a two-body central potential of the so-called Lennard-Jones form. First-principles path-integral computations are carried out, providing essentially exact numerical results on the thermodynamic properties. The theoretical model used here provides a realistic and remarkably general framework for describing simple Bose systems ranging from crystals to normal fluids to superfluids and gases. The interplay between particle interactions on the one hand and quantum indistinguishability and delocalization on the other hand is characterized by a single quantumness parameter, which can be tuned to engineer and explore different regimes. Taking advantage of the rare combination of the versatility of the many-body Hamiltonian and the possibility for exact computations, we systematically investigate the phases of the systems as a function of pressure (P) and temperature (T), as well as the quantumness parameter. We show how the topology of the phase diagram evolves from the known case of4He, as the system is made more (and less) quantum, and compare our predictions with available results from mean-field theory. Possible realization and observation of the phases and physical regimes predicted here are discussed in various experimental systems, including hypothetical muonic matter.


Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 290
Author(s):  
Maxim Pyzh ◽  
Kevin Keiler ◽  
Simeon I. Mistakidis ◽  
Peter Schmelcher

We address the interplay of few lattice trapped bosons interacting with an impurity atom in a box potential. For the ground state, a classification is performed based on the fidelity allowing to quantify the susceptibility of the composite system to structural changes due to the intercomponent coupling. We analyze the overall response at the many-body level and contrast it to the single-particle level. By inspecting different entropy measures we capture the degree of entanglement and intraspecies correlations for a wide range of intra- and intercomponent interactions and lattice depths. We also spatially resolve the imprint of the entanglement on the one- and two-body density distributions showcasing that it accelerates the phase separation process or acts against spatial localization for repulsive and attractive intercomponent interactions, respectively. The many-body effects on the tunneling dynamics of the individual components, resulting from their counterflow, are also discussed. The tunneling period of the impurity is very sensitive to the value of the impurity-medium coupling due to its effective dressing by the few-body medium. Our work provides implications for engineering localized structures in correlated impurity settings using species selective optical potentials.


Author(s):  
Kenneth G. Dyall ◽  
Knut Faegri

We have previously seen how the Dirac equation for one particle requires some rather special consideration and interpretation in order to arrive at a form that is able to treat electrons and positrons on an equal footing. These problems persist also when we go to systems with more than one electron. One might think that the extension to several electrons should not introduce dramatic changes. After all, we noted that even the one-electron problem must be viewed as a many-electron (and -positron) system in order to arrive at a consistent description. The problem with introducing more electrons is that electron–electron interactions that were previously small—for the one-electron case typically arising from vacuum polarization and self-interaction—now occur to the same order as the kinetic energy and the interaction with the potential. So while a perturbative approach such as QED can use the solutions of the one-electron Dirac equations as a very good starting approximation to a more accurate description of the full system, the same would not work for a system with more electrons because it would mean neglecting interactions of the same magnitude as the zeroth-order energy. For applications to quantum chemistry, the treatment of the entire electron–electron interaction as a perturbation would be hopelessly impractical, as it is even in manyelectron relativistic atomic structure calculations. The technique for dealing with this problem is well known from nonrelativistic calculations on many-electron systems. One-particle basis sets are developed by considering the behavior of the single electron in the mean field of all the other electrons, and while this neglects a smaller part of the interaction energy, the electron correlation, it provides a suitable starting point for further variational or perturbational treatments to recover more of the electron–electron interaction. It is only natural to pursue the same approach for the relativistic case. Thus one may proceed to construct a mean-field method that can be used as a basis for the perturbation theory of QED.


Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1342
Author(s):  
Ofir E. Alon

A solvable model of a periodically driven trapped mixture of Bose–Einstein condensates, consisting of N1 interacting bosons of mass m1 driven by a force of amplitude fL,1 and N2 interacting bosons of mass m2 driven by a force of amplitude fL,2, is presented. The model generalizes the harmonic-interaction model for mixtures to the time-dependent domain. The resulting many-particle ground Floquet wavefunction and quasienergy, as well as the time-dependent densities and reduced density matrices, are prescribed explicitly and analyzed at the many-body and mean-field levels of theory for finite systems and at the limit of an infinite number of particles. We prove that the time-dependent densities per particle are given at the limit of an infinite number of particles by their respective mean-field quantities, and that the time-dependent reduced one-particle and two-particle density matrices per particle of the driven mixture are 100% condensed. Interestingly, the quasienergy per particle does not coincide with the mean-field value at this limit, unless the relative center-of-mass coordinate of the two Bose–Einstein condensates is not activated by the driving forces fL,1 and fL,2. As an application, we investigate the imprinting of angular momentum and its fluctuations when steering a Bose–Einstein condensate by an interacting bosonic impurity and the resulting modes of rotations. Whereas the expectation values per particle of the angular-momentum operator for the many-body and mean-field solutions coincide at the limit of an infinite number of particles, the respective fluctuations can differ substantially. The results are analyzed in terms of the transformation properties of the angular-momentum operator under translations and boosts, and as a function of the interactions between the particles. Implications are briefly discussed.


2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (07) ◽  
pp. 1519-1524 ◽  
Author(s):  
VERÔNICA A. DEXHEIMER ◽  
CÉSAR A. Z. VASCONCELLOS ◽  
MOISÉS RAZEIRA ◽  
MANFRED DILLIG

For the nuclear many body problem at high densities, formulated in the framework of a relativistic mean-field theory, we investigate in detail the compression modulus of nuclear matter as a function of the effective nucleon mass. We include consistently in our modelling chemical equilibrium as well as baryon number and electric charge conservation and investigate properties of neutron stars. Among other predictions we focus on the dependence of the maximum mass of a sequence of neutron stars as a function of the compression modulus and the nucleon effective mass.


2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 11012
Author(s):  
Christopher Körber ◽  
Evan Berkowitz ◽  
Thomas Luu

Through the development of many-body methodology and algorithms, it has become possible to describe quantum systems composed of a large number of particles with great accuracy. Essential to all these methods is the application of auxiliary fields via the Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation. This transformation effectively reduces two-body interactions to interactions of one particle with the auxiliary field, thereby improving the computational scaling of the respective algorithms. The relevance of collective phenomena and interactions grows with the number of particles. For many theories, e.g. Chiral Perturbation Theory, the inclusion of three-body forces has become essential in order to further increase the accuracy on the many-body level. In this proceeding, the an-alytical framework for establishing a Hubbard-Stratonovich-like transformation, which allows for the systematic and controlled inclusion of contact three-and more-body inter-actions, is presented.


Universe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domenico Logoteta ◽  
Ignazio Bombaci

We discuss the constraints on the equation of state (EOS) of neutron star matter obtained by the data analysis of the neutron star-neutron star merger in the event GW170807. To this scope, we consider two recent microscopic EOS models computed starting from two-body and three-body nuclear interactions derived using chiral perturbation theory. For comparison, we also use three representative phenomenological EOS models derived within the relativistic mean field approach. For each model, we determine the β -stable EOS and then the corresponding neutron star structure by solving the equations of hydrostatic equilibrium in general relativity. In addition, we calculate the tidal deformability parameters for the two neutron stars and discuss the results of our calculations in connection with the constraints obtained from the gravitational wave signal in GW170817. We find that the tidal deformabilities and radii for the binary’s component neutron stars in GW170817, calculated using a recent microscopic EOS model proposed by the present authors, are in very good agreement with those derived by gravitational waves data.


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