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The structure of the Borromean nucleus $^9$Be ($alpha+alpha+n$) is addressed within a three-body approach using the analytical transformed harmonic oscillator method. The three-body formalism provides an accurate description of the radiative capture reaction rate for the entire temperature range relevant in Astrophysics. At high temperatures, results match the calculations based on two-step sequential processes. At low temperatures, where the particles have no access to intermediate two-body resonances, the three-body direct capture leads to reaction rates larger than the sequential processes. These results support the reliability of the method for systems with several charged particles.
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Background: The breakout from the hot Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxigen (CNO) cycles can trigger the rp-process in type I x-ray bursts. In this environment, a competition between $^{15}text{O}(alpha,gamma){^{19}text{Ne}}$ and the two-proton capture reaction $^{15}text{O}(2p,gamma){^{17}text{Ne}}$ is expected. Purpose: Determine the three-body radiative capture reaction rate for ${^{17}text{Ne}}$ formation including sequential and direct, resonant and non-resonant contributions on an equal footing. Method: Two different discretization methods have been applied to generate $^{17}$Ne states in a full three-body model: the analytical transformed harmonic oscillator method and the hyperspherical adiabatic expansion method. The binary $p$--$^{15}$O interaction has been adjusted to reproduce the known spectrum of the unbound $^{16}$F nucleus. The dominant $E1$ contributions to the $^{15}text{O}(2p,gamma){^{17}text{Ne}}$ reaction rate have been calculated from the inverse photodissociation process. Results: Three-body calculations provide a reliable description of $^{17}$Ne states. The agreement with the available experimental data on $^{17}$Ne is discussed. It is shown that the $^{15}text{O}(2p,gamma){^{17}text{Ne}}$ reaction rates computed within the two methods agree in a broad range of temperatures. The present calculations are compared with a previous theoretical estimation of the reaction rate. Conclusions: It is found that the full three-body model provides a reaction rate several orders of magnitude larger than the only previous estimation. The implications for the rp-process in type I x-ray bursts should be investigated.
The structure of the $^9$Be low-lying spectrum is studied within the cluster model $alpha+alpha+n$. In the model the total orbital momentum is fixed for each energy level. Thus each level is determined as a member of the spin-flip doublet corresponding to the total orbital momentum ($L^pi=0^+, 2^+,4^+, 1^-, 2^-,3^-, 4^-$) of the system. The Ali-Bodmer potential (model E) is applied for the $alphaalpha$ interaction. We employ a local $alpha n$ potential which was constructed to reproduce the $alpha-n$ scattering data. The Pauli blocking is simulated by the repulsive core of the $s$-wave components of these potentials. Configuration space Faddeev equations are used to calculate the energy of the bound state ($E_{cal.}$=-1.493 MeV v.s. $E_{exp.}$=-1.5735 MeV) and resonances. A variant of the method of analytical continuation in the coupling constant is applied to calculate the energies of low-lying levels. Available $^9$Be spectral data are satisfactorily reproduced by the proposed model.
The study of inelastic scattering and multi-nucleon transfer reactions was performed by bombarding a $^{9}$Be target with a $^3$He beam at an incident energy of 30 MeV. Angular distributions for $^9$Be($^3$He,$^3$He)$^{9}$Be, $^9$Be($^3$He,$^4$He)$^{8}$Be, $^9$Be($^3$He,$^5$He)$^{7}$Be, $^9$Be($^3$He,$^6$Li)$^6$Li and $^9$Be($^3$He,$^5$Li)$^7$Li reaction channels were measured. Experimental angular distributions for the corresponding ground states (g.s.) were analysed within the framework of the optical model, the coupled-channel approach and the distorted-wave Born approximation. Cross sections for channels leading to unbound $^5$He$_{g.s.}$, $^5$Li$_{g.s.}$ and $^8$Be systems were obtained from singles measurements where the relationship between the energy and the scattering angle of the observed stable ejectile is constrained by two-body kinematics. Information on the cluster structure of $^{9}$Be was obtained from the transfer channels. It was concluded that cluster transfer is an important mechanism in the investigated nuclear reactions. In the present work an attempt was made to estimate the relative strengths of the interesting $^8$Be+$n$ and $^5$He+$alpha$ cluster configurations in $^9$Be. The branching ratios have been determined confirming that the $^5$He+$alpha$ configuration plays an important role. The configuration of $^9$Be consisting of two bound helium clusters $^3$He+$^6$He is significantly suppressed, whereas the two-body configurations ${}^{8}$Be+$n$ and ${}^{5}$He+$alpha$ including unbound $^8$Be and $^5$He are found more probable.
Single-particle energies of the $Lambda_c$ chamed baryon are obtained in several nuclei from the relevant self-energy constructed within the framework of a perturbative many-body approach. Results are presented for a charmed baryon-nucleon ($Y_cN$) potential based on a SU(4) extension of the meson-exchange hyperon-nucleon potential $tilde A$ of the J{u}lich group. Three different models (A, B and C) of this interaction, that differ only on the values of the couplings of the scalar $sigma$ meson with the charmed baryons, are considered. Phase shifts, scattering lengths and effective ranges are computed for the three models and compared with those predicted by the $Y_cN$ interaction derived in Eur. Phys. A {bf 54}, 199 (2018) from the extrapolation to the physical pion mass of recent results of the HAL QCD Collaboration. Qualitative agreement is found for two of the models (B and C) considered. Our results for $Lambda_c$-nuclei are compatible with those obtained by other authors based on different models and methods. We find a small spin-orbit splitting of the $p-, d-$ and $f-$wave states as in the case of single $Lambda$-hypernuclei. The level spacing of $Lambda_c$ single-particle energies is found to be smaller than that of the corresponding one for hypernuclei. The role of the Coulomb potential and the effect of the coupling of the $Lambda_cN$ and $Sigma_cN$ channels on the single-particle properties of $Lambda_c-$nuclei are also analyzed. Our results show that, despite the Coulomb repulsion between the $Lambda_c$ and the protons, even the less attractive one of our $Y_cN$ models (model C) is able to bind the $Lambda_c$ in all the nuclei considered. The effect of the $Lambda_cN-Sigma_cN$ coupling is found to be almost negligible due to the large mass difference of the $Lambda_c$ and $Sigma_c$ baryons.
We propose a new approach to probe the spatial extension of the valence neutron orbital in the $^{9}$Be nucleus via the ${}^{9}$Be($p,pn$)${}^{8}$Be knockout reaction. This property of the nuclear molecular orbital has not been established in previous experimental studies and divergence exists between the theoretical descriptions of ${}^{9}$Be from different perspectives, textit{i.e.}, the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics and the container pictures of cluster dynamics. These pictures are represented by two different well-proven microscopic models, the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics (AMD) and Tohsaki-Horiuchi-Schuck-R{o}pke (THSR) wave functions. The corresponding reduced width amplitudes (RWAs) in the $^{8}$Be$+n$ channel are extracted from both the AMD and THSR wave functions, and they are found to describe drastically different valence-nucleon motion, which shows the theoretical ambiguity in describing the $pi$-orbitals in $^{9}$Be. Using the RWAs as input, the physical observables of the ${}^{9}$Be($p,pn$)${}^{8}$Be knockout reaction are predicted by the distorted-wave impulse approximation (DWIA) framework. The magnitudes of the triple-differential cross sections (TDX) are found to be highly sensitive to the RWA input. It is concluded that the ${}^{9}$Be($p,pn$)${}^{8}$Be knockout reaction could provide a feasible probing for the subtle differences between several structure models manifesting through the spatial extension of the $pi$-orbital in the $^{9}$Be nucleus.
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