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The microscopic description of the properties of atomic nuclei is a longstanding challenge in nuclear structure physics. A general microscopic framework for the study of nuclear collective motion is provided by the nuclear shell model, which includes all many-particle fermion degrees of freedom. Unfortunately, the dimension of the model space grows rapidly with the increase in the number of the nucleons or/and the available single particle states included in the model calculation, even when the valence shell is solely considered. Accordingly, several submodels of the shell model have been constructed to reduce the number of states as well as the computational difficulty. In particular, the algebraic models formulated in terms of spectrum generating algebras and dynamical groups, are remarkable. These shell-model submodels describe more of the physical structure of states in terms of well-defined quantum numbers.
The corner-stone of the spherical harmonic oscillator shell model is provided by the
$ SU(3) $ algebraic structure of the three-dimensional harmonic oscillator, first proposed in nuclear physics by Elliott [1] in 1958, which is present as a building block in all sophisticated algebraic models proposed during the time for the description of the nuclear structure. The$ SU(3) $ classification scheme of the many-particle nuclear states allows us to answer whether these states are indeed eigenfunctions of a realistic Hamiltonian for a given real nucleus.Various shell-model classification schemes are most easily applied to the light nuclei, where the size of the model space is considerably smaller than in the case of intermediate and heavy mass nuclei. From the light nuclei,20Ne is a typical example of a well-deformed (prolate) nucleus from the
$ ds $ shell, exhibiting rotational bands with enhanced quadrupole collectivity. Despite the well-pronounced collective character, the different microscopic shell-model calculations indicate the complicated structure of the observed rotational bands in20Ne. Hence, this nucleus serves as a good example that can be used to test the different collective models of nuclear structure.The first microscopic approach that demonstrated how collective properties can emer
Proton-neutron symplectic model description of20Ne
- Received Date:2021-11-05
- Available Online:2022-04-15
Abstract:A microscopic description of the low-lying positive-parity rotational bands in20Ne is given within the framework of the symplectic-based proton-neutron shell-model approach provided by the proton-neutron symplectic model (PNSM). For this purpose, a model Hamiltonian is adopted. This includes an algebraic interaction lying in the enveloping algebra of the

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