Pauli-principle Driven Correlations in Four-neutron Nuclear Decays
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2019

Mechanism of simultaneous non-sequential four-neutron (4n) emission (or “true” 4n-decay) has been considered in phenomenological five-body approach. This approach is analogous to the model of the direct decay to the continuum often applied to 2n-and 2p-decays. It is demonstrated that 4n-decay fragments should have specific energy and angular correlations reflecting strong spatial correlations of “valence” nucleons orbiting in their 4n-precursors. Due to the Pauli exclusion principle, the valence neutrons are pushed to the symmetry-allowed configurations in the 4n-precursor structure, which causes a “Pauli focusing” effect. Prospects of the observation of the Pauli focusing have been considered for the 4n-precursors 7Hand 28 O. Fingerprints of their nuclear structure or/and decay dynamics are predicted.

Författare

P.G. Sharov

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)

L Grigorenko

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)

National Research Nuclear University

National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute"

A. N. Ismailova

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)

Mikhail Zhukov

Chalmers, Fysik

JETP Letters

0021-3640 (ISSN) 1090-6487 (eISSN)

Vol. 110 1 5-14

Ämneskategorier

Subatomär fysik

Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

Annan fysik

DOI

10.1134/S0021364019130046

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2019-12-02