Number-conserving theory of nuclear pairing gaps: a global assessment

Details Number-conserving theory of nuclear pairing gaps: a global assessment Number-conserving theory of nuclear pairing gaps: a global assessment

2010-09-16

arxiv.org/abs/1009.3087v1

Phys.Rev.C83:014319,2011

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

11 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.83.014319

We study odd-even mass staggering of nuclei, also called pairing gaps, using a Skyrme self-consistent mean-field theory and a numerically exact treatment of the pairing Hamiltonian. We find that the configuration-space Monte Carlo method proposed by Cerf and Martin offers a practical computational procedure to carry out the numerical solutions in large-dimensional model spaces. Refitting the global strength of the pairing interaction for 443 neutron pairing gaps in our number-conserving treatment, we find the correction to the pairing correlation energies and pairing gaps to have rms values of 0.6 MeV and 0.12 MeV, respectively. The exact treatment provides a significant improvement in the fit to experimental gaps, although it is partially masked by a larger rms error due to deficiencies in other aspects of the theory such as the mean-field energy functional.

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