Large enhancement of total reaction cross sections at the edge of the island of inversion in Ti, Cr, and Fe isotopes

Abstract

A systematic analysis of nuclear deformation is made for neutron-rich Ti, Cr, and Fe isotopes to explore the nuclear structure in the island of inversion near N = 40, where strong nuclear deformation is predicted. The nuclear ground states are obtained by the Skyrme Hartree-Fock method in three-dimensional coordinate space, which properly describes any nuclear shape. Three types of Skyrme interactions are employed to generate various deformed states in its isotopic chain. We find that in the island of inversion the occupation of highly elongated intruder orbits induces not only large quadrupole deformation but also large hexadecapole deformation. This appears as a sizable enhancement of the nuclear matter radius, showing the characteristic shell effect of the density profile near the nuclear surface. We show that the edge of the island of inversion, where the intruder orbit starts being occupied, can be determined by measuring the enhancement of the total reaction cross section at high incident energy. The possibility of constraining the hexadecapole deformation by a measurement of the total reaction cross sections is discussed.

13 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. C

References in corpus (13)

• Collapse of the N=28 shell closure in ${}^{42}$Si
• ${}^{22}$C: $S$-Wave Two-Neutron Halo
• A two-neutron halo is unveiled in ${}^{29}$F
• Shell evolution of $N=40$ isotones towards ${}^{60}$Ca: First spectroscopy of ${}^{62}$Ti
• A further look at prolate dominance in nuclear deformation
• Elastic and total reaction cross sections of oxygen isotopes in Glauber theory
• Nuclear Mass Measurements Map the Structure of Atomic Nuclei and Accreting Neutron Stars
• Shape changes and large-amplitude collective dynamics in neutron-rich Cr isotopes
• Imprint of nuclear bubble in nucleon-nucleus diffraction
• Core swelling in spherical nuclei: An indication of the saturation of nuclear density
• Neutron-skin thickness determines the surface tension of a compressible nuclear droplet
• Complete Glauber calculations for proton-nucleus inelastic cross sections
• First spectroscopy of 61Ti and the transition to the Island of Inversion at N = 40

Cited by in corpus (7)

• Shape coexistence in even-even nuclei: A theoretical overview
• Density profiles near nuclear surface of ${}^{44,52}$Ti: An indication of $\alpha$ clustering
• Imprints of $\alpha$ clustering in the density profiles of ${}^{12}$C and ${}^{16}$O
• Evidence of bicluster structure in the ground state of ${}^{20}$Ne
• Prediction of two-neutron halos in the $N=28$ isotones ${}^{40}$Mg and ${}^{39}$Na
• Enlarged deformation region in neutron-rich Zr isotopes by the second intruder orbit
• Investigating nuclear density profiles to reveal particle-hole configurations in the island of inversion