Cross-shell states in 15C: A test for p-sd interactions

J. Lois-Fuentes, B. Fernández-Domínguez*, X. Pereira-López, F. Delaunay, W.N. Catford, A. Matta, N.A. Orr, T. Duguet, T. Otsuka, V. Somà, O. Sorlin, T. Suzuki, N.L. Achouri, M. Assié, S. Bailey, B. Bastin, Y. Blumenfeld, R. Borcea, M. Caamaño, L. CaceresE. Clément, A. Corsi, N. Curtis, Q. Deshayes, F. Farget, M. Fisichella, G. De france, S. Franchoo, M. Freer, J. Gibelin, A. Gillibert, G.F. Grinyer, F. Hammache, O. Kamalou, A. Knapton, Tz. Kokalova, V. Lapoux, B. Le Crom, S. Leblond, F.M. Marqués, P. Morfouace, J. Pancin, L. Perrot, J. Piot, E. Pollacco, D. Ramos, D. Regueira-Castro, C. Rodríguez-Tajes, T. Roger, F. Rotaru, M. Sénoville, N. De Séréville, R. Smith, M. Stanoiu, I. Stefan, C. Stodel, D. Suzuki, J.C. Thomas, N. Timofeyuk, M. Vandebrouck, J. Walshe, C. Wheldon

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Abstract

The low-lying structure of 15C has been investigated via the neutron-removal 16C(d,t) reaction. Along with the known bound neutron sd-shell states, unbound p-shell hole states have been observed. The excitation energies and the deduced spectroscopic factors of the cross-shell states are an important measure of the [(p)−1(sd)2] neutron configurations in 15C. Our results show a very good agreement with shell-model calculations using the SFO-tls interaction for 15C. However, this same interaction predicted energies that were too low for the corresponding hole states in the N = 9 isotone 17O and adjustment of the p-sd and sd-sd monopole terms was required to match the 17O energies. In addition, the excitation energies and spectroscopic factors have been compared to the first calculations of 15C with the ab initio self-consistent Green’s function method employing the NNLOsat interaction. The results show the sensitivity to the size of the N = 8 shell gap and highlight the need to go beyond the current truncation scheme
Original languageEnglish
Article number138149
Pages (from-to)138149
Number of pages7
JournalPhysics Letters B
Volume845
Early online date28 Aug 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Oct 2023

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Acknowledgments:
J.L.F. wishes to acknowledge financial support from Xunta de Galicia (Spain) grant number ED481A-2020/069, X.P.L. acknowledges support through an IN2P3/CNRS (France) doctoral fellowship, the ST/P003885 grant (Spain) and Grant No. IBS-R031-D1. This work was supported by the Spanish MINECO through the project PGC2018-096717-B-C22 and PID2021-128487NB-I00. This work was also partially supported by the Xunta de Galicia under project No ED431B 2018/015, 2021-PG045 and the Maria de Maeztu Unit of Excellence MDM-2016-0692. W.N.C., N.T. and A.M. acknowledge financial support from the STFC grant number ST/L005743/1. M.F., N.C., Tz.K. and C.W. acknowledge support from STFC grant number ST/V001043/1. The authors acknowledge the support provided by the technical staff of LPC-Caen and GANIL. SCGF calculations were performed by using HPC resources from GENCI-TGCC (Contract no. A0110513012). The participants from the Universities of Birmingham and Surrey, as well as the INFN and IFIN-HH laboratories also acknowledge partial support from the European Community within the FP6 contract EURONS RII3-CT-2004-06065.

Keywords

  • One neutron pick-up reaction
  • Neutron-rich carbon isotopes
  • Phenomenological shell-model
  • Ab initio calculations

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