Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2004-01-12
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
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Scientific paper
We have investigated the ground-state structures of even-even neutron-deficient isotopes of Hg and Pb nuclei within the framework of a deformed relativistic mean field formalism for a number of commonly used parameter sets, namely NL1, NL3, NL-SH, NL-RA1 and TM1. The ground states of a bunch of Hg and Pb-isotopes towards the proton-dripline are found to be deformed for all the forces, with a constant pairing gap. The small differences in the ground- and the first-excited state binding energies predict a sea of low-lying excited states, and hence of shape co-existence, for both the Hg and Pb nuclei. In general, a discrepancy between the experimentally observed and theoretically predicted (sign of) quadrupole deformations is noticed in this mass region. The constrained potential energy surfaces and the single-particle energy spectra analyzed for some selected nuclei show that the known large shell gap for Pb nuclei at Z=82 is almost extinguished for its proton-rich isotopes.
Gupta Raj K.
Jha T. K.
Mehta M. S.
Patra Sunando Kumar
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