Odd-even staggering of binding energy for nuclei in the sd shell

  • G. J. Fu
  • , Y. Y. Cheng
  • , H. Jiang
  • , Y. M. Zhao*
  • , A. Arima
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper we study odd-even staggering phenomena of binding energy in the framework of the nuclear shell model for nuclei in the sd shell. We decompose the USDB effective interaction into the monopole interaction and multipole (residual) interactions. We extract the empirical proton-neutron interaction, the Wigner energy, and the one-neutron separation energy using calculated binding energies. The monopole interaction, which represents the spherical mean field, provides contributions to the empirical proton-neutron interaction, the symmetry energy, and the Wigner energy. It does not induce odd-even staggering of the empirical proton-neutron interaction or the one-neutron separation energy. Isovector monopole and quadrupole pairing interactions and isoscalar spin-1 pairing interactions play a key role in reproducing an additional binding energy in both even-even and odd-odd nuclei. The Wigner energy coefficients are sensitive to residual two-body interactions. The nuclear shell structure has a strong influence on the evolution of the one-neutron separation energy, but not on empirical proton-neutron interactions. The so-called three-point formula is a good probe of the shell structure.

Original languageEnglish
Article number024311
JournalPhysical Review C
Volume94
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Aug 2016
Externally publishedYes

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