Wednesday, October 10, 2012

1210.2656 (P. M. Goddard et al.)

Why is lead so kinky?    [PDF]

P. M. Goddard, P. D. Stevenson, A. Rios
We revisit the problem of the kink in the charge radius shift of neutron-rich even lead isotopes. We show that the ability of a Skyrme force to reproduce the isotope shift is determined by the occupation of the neutron 1i11/2 orbital beyond N=126 and the corresponding change it causes to deeply-bound protons orbitals with a principal quantum number of 1. Given the observed position of the single-particle energies, one must either ensure occupation is allowed through correlations, or not demand that the single-particle energies agree with experimental values at the mean-field level.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2656

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