Large-scale shell-model study for beta-decay properties of neutron-rich nuclei

ORAL  · Invited

Abstract

Beta decays in neutron-rich nuclei provide beneficial information on nuclear structure through their selective populations of states with specific spin/parity quantum numbers. Among them, the halflives of neutron-rich nuclei are important to elucidate r-process nucleosynthesis. In this talk, we present our shell-model study about the beta-decay properties of neutron-rich N=82, 81 isotones, some of which are r-process waiting point nuclides. The shell-model result shows excellent agreement with the experimental half-lives. We found that the low-energy peak of the Gamow Teller transition increases as the proton number

decreases from Z=50 to Z=40 due to the shell evolution. In addition, the beta-decay half-lives of neutron-rich nuclei of A~40 nuclei

are estimated by the shell-model calculations including the recently measured data at the FRIB facility.

*We acknowledges the support of "Program for promoting researches on the supercomputer Fugaku", MEXT, Japan (JPMXP1020230411, JPMXP1020200105) and the MCRP program of the Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba (wo22i002).

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Publication: [1] N. Shimizu, T. Togashi and Y. Utsuno, Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2021, 033D01 (2021).
[2] S. Yoshida, N. Shimizu, T. Togashi, and T. Otsuka, Phys. Rev. C 98, 061301(R) (2018).

Presenters

  • Noritaka Shimizu

    • Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba
    • University of Tsukuba

Authors

  • Noritaka Shimizu

    • Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba
    • University of Tsukuba
  • Yutaka Utsuno

    • Japan Atomic Energy Agency