The N = 28 shell gap in sulfur, argon, calcium and titanium isotopes is investigated in the framework of relativistic continuum Hartree-Bogoliubov （RCHB） theory. The evolutions of neutron shell gap, separation energy, single particle energy and pairing energy are analyzed, and it is found that the N = 28 shell gap is quenched in sulfur isotopes but persists in argon, calcium and titanium isotopes. The evolution of the N = 28 shell gap in the N = 28 isotonic chain is discussed, and the erosion of the N = 28 shell gap is understood with the evolution of potential with proton number.
The effects of the nuclear current in the antimagnetic rotation band of 105Cd have been investigated in a fully self-consistent and microscopic way by using the tilted axis cranking relativistic mean-field model.It was found that the inclusion of nuclear current leads to a higher angular momentum and thus a larger kinetic moment of inertia at a given rotational frequency.As a consequence,the B(E2) values with current are always smaller than those without current.
Center-of-mass（c.m.） correction and rotational correction in even-even Ge isotopes are systematically investigated within the triaxially deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov model using the PC-PK1 force. The shell effect and deformation effect on the microscopic c.m. correction and rotational correction are discussed, and the importance of both corrections on reproducing the binding energy is demonstrated.
The α-cluster structures for 12^C and 16^O are investigated in the framework of the covariant density functional theory, where the pairing correlation is treated with a particle number conserving shell-model-like approach. The ground states of 12^C and 160 have been calculated and the density distributions demonstrate an equilateral triangle 3α clustering for 12^C and a regular tetrahedron 4α clustering for 16^O The existence of linear nα chain structure of both 12^C and 16^O is revealed at high quadrupole deformation.
The α-decay energies （Qα） are systematically investigated with the nuclear masses for 10 ≤Z ≤120 isotopes obtained by the relativistic continuum Hartree-Bogoliubov （RCHB） theory with the covariant density func- tional PC-PK1, and compared with available experimental values. It is found that the α-decay energies deduced from the RCHB results present a similar pattern to those from available experiments. Owing to the large predicted Qα values （≥4 MeV）, many undiscovered heavy nuclei in the proton-rich side and super-heavy nuclei may have large possibilities for α-decay. The influence of nuclear shell structure on α-decay energies is also analysed.
The chiral geometry of multiple chiral doublet bands with identical configuration is discussed for different triaxial deformation parameters γ in the particle rotor model with πh11/2×γh11/2^-1.The energy spectra,electromagnetic transition probabilities B（M1） and B（E2）,angular momenta,and K-distributions are studied.It is demonstrated that the chirality still remains not only in the yrast and yrare bands,but also in the two higher excited bands whenγ deviates from 30°.The chiral geometry relies significantly on γ,and the chiral geometry of the two higher excited partner bands is not as good as that of the yrast and yrare doublet bands.
The spectroscopic properties and angular momentum geometry of the wobbling motion of a simple triaxial rotor are investigated within the triaxial rotor model. The obtained exact solutions of energy spectra and reduced quadrupole transition probabilities are compared to the approximate analytic solutions from the harmonic approximation formula and Holstein-Primakoff formula. It is found that the low lying wobbling bands can be well described by the analytic formulae. The evolution of the angular momentum geometry as well as the K-distribution with respect to the rotation and the wobbling phonon excitation are studied in detail. It is demonstrated that with the increase of the wobbling phonon number, the triaxial rotor changes its wobbling motions along the axis with the largest moment of inertia to the axis with the smallest moment of inertia. In this process, a specific evolutionary track that can be used to depict the motion of a triaxial rotating nucleus is proposed.
Nuclear masses ranging from O to Ti isotopes are systematically investigated with relativistic continuum Hartree-Bogoliubov(RCHB)theory,which can provide a proper treatment of pairing correlations in the presence of the continuum.From O to Ti isotopes,there are 402 nuclei predicted to be bound by the density functional PC-PK1.For the 234 nuclei with mass measured,the root mean square(rms)deviation is 2.23 MeV.It is found that the proton drip-lines predicted with various mass models are roughly the same and basically agree with the observation.The neutron drip-lines predicted,however,are quite diferent.Due to the continuum couplings,the neutron drip-line nuclei predicted are extended further neutron-rich than other mass models.By comparison with finite-range droplet model(FRDM),the neutron drip-line nucleus predicted by RCHB theory has respectively2(O),10(Ne),10(Na),6(Mg),8(Al),6(Si),8(P),6(S),14(K),10(Ca),10(Sc),and 12(Ti)more neutrons.
QU XiaoYingCHEN YingZHANG ShuangQuanZHAO PengWeiSHIN Ik JaeLIM YeunhwanKIM YoungmanMENG Jie
