Microscopic description of quadrupole-octupole coupling in neutron-rich actinides and superheavy nuclei with the Gogny-D1M energy density functional

Abstract

The interplay between quadrupole and octupole degrees of freedom is discussed in a series of neutron-rich actinides and superheavy nuclei with $92\le$ Z $\le 110$ and $186\le$ N $\le 202$. In addition to the static Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approach, dynamical beyond-mean-field correlations are taken into account via both parity restoration and symmetry-conserving Generator Coordinate Method calculations based on the Gogny-D1M energy density functional. Physical properties such as correlation energies, negative-parity excitation energies as well as reduced transition probabilities $B(E1)$ and $B(E3)$ are discussed in detail. It is shown that, for the studied nuclei, the quadrupole-octupole coupling is weak and to a large extent the properties of negative parity states can be reasonably well described in terms of the octupole degree of freedom alone.

18 pages, 13 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2008.09365

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