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Oxygen-16 Spectrum from Tetrahedral Vibrations and their Rotational Excitations

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 نشر من قبل Chris Halcrow
 تاريخ النشر 2019
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A reinterpretation of the complete energy spectrum of the Oxygen-16 nucleus up to 20 MeV, and partly beyond, is proposed. The underlying intrinsic shape of the nucleus is tetrahedral, as in the naive alpha-particle model and other cluster models, and A, E and F vibrational phonons are included. The A- and F-phonons are treated in the harmonic approximation, but the E-vibrations are extended into a two-dimensional E-manifold of D2-symmetric, four-alpha-particle configurations, following earlier work. This allows for the underlying tetrahedral configuration to deform through a square configuration into the dual tetrahedron, so there is tunnelling between the tetrahedron and its dual, with the associated breaking of parity doubling. However, E-manifold states can still be interpreted in terms of E-phonons. Rotational excitations of the vibrational states are analysed as in the classic work of Dennison, Robson and others, with centrifugal corrections to the rotational energy spectrum included. States with F-phonons require Coriolis corrections too. The first-excited $0^+$ state at 6.05 MeV is modelled as a state with two E-phonons; this allows a good fit of the lowest $2^+$ and $2^-$ states as excitations with one E-phonon. The Coriolis parameter $zeta$ is chosen positive to ensure the right splitting of the $3^+$ and $3^-$ states near 11 MeV. Altogether, about 80 states with isospin zero are predicted below 20 MeV, and these match rather well the more than 60 experimentally tabulated states. Several high-spin states are predicted, up to spin 9 and energy 30 MeV, and these match some of the high-spin, natural parity states in this energy range that have been observed. The model proposed here is mainly phenomenological but it receives some input from analysis of Skyrmions with baryon number 16.

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