Electron-scattering form factors for 6Li in the ab initio symmetry-guided framework

Abstract

We present an ab initio symmetry-adapted no-core shell-model description for ${}^6$Li. We study the structure of the ground state of ${}^6$Li and the impact of the symmetry-guided space selection on the charge density components for this state in momentum space, including the effect of higher shells. We accomplish this by investigating the electron scattering charge form factor for momentum transfers up to $q\sim 4$ fm${}^{-1}$. We demonstrate that this symmetry-adapted framework can achieve significantly reduced dimensions for equivalent large shell-model spaces while retaining the accuracy of the form factor for any momentum transfer. These new results confirm the previous outcomes for selected spectroscopy observables in light nuclei, such as binding energies, excitation energies, electromagnetic moments, E2 and M1 reduced transition probabilities, as well as point-nucleon matter rms radii.

10 pages, 7 figures; accepted to Physical Review C

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