Microscopic analysis of octupole shape transitions in neutron-rich actinides with relativistic energy density functional

Zhong Xu; Zhi-Pan Li

doi:10.1088/1674-1137/41/12/124107

Chinese Physics C> 2017, Vol. 41> Issue(12) : 124107 DOI: 10.1088/1674-1137/41/12/124107

Microscopic analysis of octupole shape transitions in neutron-rich actinides with relativistic energy density functional

Zhong Xu ,
Zhi-Pan Li ^,

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School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

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Quadrupole and octupole deformation energy surfaces, low-energy excitation spectra, and electric transition rates in eight neutron-rich isotopic chains-Ra, Th, U, Pu, Cm, Cf, Fm, and No-are systematically analyzed using a quadrupole-octupole collective Hamiltonian model, with parameters determined by constrained reflection-asymmetric and axially-symmetric relativistic mean-field calculations based on the PC-PK1 energy density functional. The theoretical results of low-lying negative-parity bands, odd-even staggering, average octupole deformations <β₃>, and B(E3; 3₁^-→ 0₁⁺) show evidence of a shape transition from nearly spherical to stable octupole-deformed, and finally octupole-soft equilibrium shapes in the neutron-rich actinides. A microscopic mechanism for the onset of stable octupole deformation is also discussed in terms of the evolution of single-nucleon orbitals with deformation.
- ocutpole deformation ,
- negative-parity band ,
- relativistic energy density functional ,
- quadrupole-octupole collective Hamiltonian

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