Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2010-03-23
Phys.Rev.C81:034315,2010
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
13 pages, 13 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.81.034315
We discuss the octupole deformation properties of the recently proposed Barcelona-Catania-Paris (BCP) energy density functionals for two sets of isotopes, those of radium and barium, where it is believed that octupole deformation plays a role in the description of the ground state. The analysis is carried out in the mean field framework (Hartree- Fock- Bogoliubov approximation) by using the axially symmetric octupole moment as a constraint. The main ingredients entering the octupole collective Hamiltonian are evaluated and the lowest lying octupole eigenstates are obtained. In this way we restore, in an approximate way, the parity symmetry spontaneously broken by the mean field and also incorporate octupole fluctuations around the ground state solution. For each isotope the energy of the lowest lying $1^{-}$state and the $B(E1)$ and $B(E3)$ transition probabilities have been computed and compared to both the experimental data and the results obtained in the same framework with the Gogny D1S interaction, which are used here as a well established benchmark. Finally, the octupolarity of the configurations involved in the way down to fission of $^{240}$Pu, which is strongly connected to the asymmetric fragment mass distribution, is studied. We confirm with this thorough study the suitability of the BCP functionals to describe octupole related phenomena.
Baldo Marcello
Robledo Luis M.
Schuck Peter
Viñas Xavier
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