Dear Colleagues,
The 20th CNS International Summer School (CNSSS21), co-hosted by Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo and by JSPS A3 Foresight program, will be held for Aug.16 - Aug.20, 2020. The school is supported by RNC, Super Heavy Research Center of Kyushu Univ. and cooperated by ANPhA.
The lecturers of the CNSSS21 include,
Dr. Stefan Typel (GSI Germany) "From nuclei to stars with a relativistic density functional"
Prof. Hidetoshi Yamaguchi (CNS, U. of Tokyo, Japan) "How to study nuclear clusters experimentally?"
Prof. Peter Mueller (ANL, USA) "Atom Traps of Rare Isotopes at the Precision and Sensitivity Frontier in Nuclear Physics"
Prof. Akira Ejiri (U. of Tokyo) " R&D for nuclear fusion reactors, High temperature plasma as a complex system"
Dr. Zaihong Yang (RCNP, Osaka University, Japan) "Probing nuclear clustering with knockout reactions"
Dr. Sarah Naimi (RIKEN Nishina Center, Japan) "Overview of RIBF"
Prof. Susumu Shimoura (CNS, U. of Tokyo, Japan) "Direct reactions as quantum probes of sub-atomic system"
The registration opens now.
As the past CNSSS, we will have young scientist sessions where the Ph.D students and Post-docs contribute to oral presentation. From 2018 we select a few persons from the poster and oral presentations as the winners of “CNSSS Young Scientist Awards”. The certificate will be given to the winners. For the best presentation, AAPPS-DNP/ANPhA award for young physisit is also presented.
We’re looking forward to seeing you at the school.
With best regards
A3F-CNSSS21 Organizing Committee
The equation of states of (EoS) of the spin polarized, asymmetric nuclear matter (NM) is studied within the nonrelativistic Hartree-Fock (HF) formalism using realistic choices for the in-medium (density dependent) nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction, dubbed as CDM3Y4, CDM3Y5, CDM3Y6 and CDM3Y8. Two scenarios for the density dependence of the spin polarization
The EoS of NS matter over a wide range of baryon densities is used as input for the calculation of the macroscopic configuration of NS within the framework of General Relativity (GR), like the gravitational mass
Keywords: Neutron star, Magnetar, Spin polarization, Equation of state, Nuclear matter, Tidal deformability, Love number, Gravitational wave.
Resonance phenomena appearing in low-energy nuclear reactions are very important in studies of nucleosynthesis in cosmos because reaction rates in the synthesis are strongly affected by the resonance parameters: resonance energy and decay width. In particular, the inelastic scattering to the continuum energy states above the particle decay threshold, which is often called breakup reaction, is very useful to explore the resonance parameters.
In order to derive the resonance parameters from the observed strength of the breakup reactions, the evaluation of the non-resonant background strength is indispensable because the resonant enhancement, which has the strong energy dependence, are embedded in the non-resonant background contribution with a broad structure. Since the background strength is structure-less and must have the weak energy dependence, the shape of the non-resonant background strength is often assumed by the simple analytic function or evaluated from the simple reaction mechanism, such as the direct breakup without the final state interaction between the decaying fragments. Unfortunately, there is no theoretical prescription to describe the non-resonant background strength on the basis of the simple analytic formula.
In this report, we propose an analytic formula to evaluate the non-resonant background strength by extending the Midgal-Watson (MW) theory [1], which was originally considered for the s-wave breakup reaction in the charge neutral systems [2-4]. In the evaluation of the background strength for the binary breakup, we employ the complex scaling method (CSM), which is a powerful tool to describe the few-body continuum states [5].
We have calculated the non-resonant breakup strength of
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It has been well-known that the pairing correlations decrease with increasing temperature T. However, recent studies have reported a possible increase of pairing correlation in excited (hot) odd nuclei at low temperature (T < 0.5 – 1 MeV), which is associated to the pairing reentrance phenomenon [1, 2]. The latter has been explained due to the blocking effect of odd nucleon in odd nuclei at finite temperature. This blocking effect possibly depends on few single-particle levels above and below the Fermi surface where the odd nucleon can redistribute at nonzero temperature. In this study, we perform a systematic investigation of such a pairing reentrance in odd nuclei based on the exact solution of pairing problem at finite temperature. Our investigation starts with a simple doubly-folded multilevel pairing model by varying the energies of some single-particle levels above and below the Fermi surface. Calculations will be then extended to some calcium isotopes using a realistic axially deformed Woods-Saxon potential.
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The next new superheavy element(SHE) locates the 8th period, is the notable element that provides the view on the existence of the predicted "island of stability (114-protons, 184-neutrons)" in the superheavy element region. In addition, neutron-rich nucleus far from the valley of stability in the nuclear chart are thought to have been produced by the r-process caused by supernova explosions and neutron mergers. The n-rich nucleus is important for understanding the origin of elements existing in the universe and the chemical evolution of the universe. For future SHE and n-rich nucleus synthesis, it is indispensable to propose a new method such as using the nucleon transfer reaction in addition to the conventional heavy ion fusion reaction, and to elucidate the reaction mechanism and the mechanism in the formation process. In this study, we focused on the nucleon transfer reactions. In the nucleon transfer reactions, the projectile nucleus receives nucleons from the target nucleus while rubbing around the target nucleus, increases the mass number, and the projectile-like fragment finally apart from the target-like fragment in the certain angle. At that time, there is a correlation between the number of transfer nucleons and the emission angle, and the characteristic differs depending on the projectile and target nucleus. The correlation between mass and angle of the fission fragment mass can understand the mechanism of fission and fusion process.
In this study, we calculated the mass angle distribution(MAD) using the dynamical model and investigated the correlation between mass and angle. As the result, it was possible to show that the correlation between mass and angle in the superheavy element region is different in the superheavy element region. In addition, we investigated the relationship between the fusion possibility for Z=120 and the sticking time from contact to scission.
Many-body tunneling is an important phenomenon in many fields of physics and chemistry.
In nuclear physics, tunneling effects appear, e.g., in low-energy fusion reactions, spontanious fission and so on.
The microscopic description of such tunneling effects is one of the major goals of nuclear reaction theory.
The time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) method, or the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT),
is one of the most widely used microscopic frameworks for nuclear reactions.
It has been demonstrated that the TDHF successfully describes average behaviors of nuclear reactions
such as the energy-angle correlation in heavy-ion deep inelastic collisions[1].
Because it is based on the nucleonic degrees of freedom,
ideally, the TDHF does not contain any empirical parameter for reactions, once static nuclear properties are well investigated.
This feature will be particularly important in applying the framework to unknown regions where experimental studies are difficult,
e.g., reactions of neutron-rich nuclei.
However, it has been known that the TDHF fails to describe tunneling effect. To overcome this problem, we will discuss the
Time-Dependent Generator Coordinate Method (TDGCM)[2-5] approach in this presentation.
In the TDGCM, one assumes that a many-body wave function is given as a superposition of many Slater determinants,
where
The index
The time evolution of the weight functions
are determined by the time-dependent variational principle.
We have applied this method to collision of an
In our calculation, the initial values of the center of mass position and momentum of the
is taken as the generator coordinates.
We obtained the energy dependence of transmission probability.
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The nuclei having A ~120 (50 ≤ Z ≤ 56) are of considerable interest because of the competing shape driving tendencies of their orbitals occupied by the neutrons and the protons. Due to presence of both quadrupole and the octupole collectivity in the neutron deficient Ba, Cs and Xe nuclei with mass A ~ 120 have attracted much attention in recent years. For nuclei with A < 120, due to their closeness to the proton drip line and therefore difficulty to populate via fusion evaporation reactions, octupole collectivity has been reported in very few cases like
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Nuclear fusion reactions have very important significance in the area of nuclear astrophysics because they determine the nucleosynthesis of the elements in early stages of the universe and control the energy generation and evolution of stars. The precise knowledge of cross-sections and reaction rates of these nuclear fusion reactions are very important to describe the evolution of universe. There are various reactions which have strong significance in astrophysical aspects but our plan is to perform to experimentally study the 12C+12C fusion reaction at very low energies. This reaction is referred as carbon burning in stellar evolution process. Carbon burning plays a very important role in star which has mass greater than the eight solar mass (M > 8Mʘ). If mass is nearly 8Mʘ, then may end up as white dwarf and if mass is sufficiently larger than the 8Mʘ then it may show core-collapse supernovae.
Direct measurements of 12C+12C fusion cross sections have been performed over a wide range of energies by several researchers, but still the energy of interest for astrophysical purposes (Ecm <2MeV) has so far not been reached by direct measurement. Since the Gamow window for 12C+12C reaction (1-2 MeV) is much lower than its coulomb barrier (Ecm = 6.1 MeV), the direct measurement for this reaction is very challenging because of extremely small cross-sections. This becomes even more complicated owing to the high beam-induced background originating from impurities in target, especially, 1H and 2H. Lots of effort have been devoted to direct measurement of fusion cross section for this reaction, but so far could only go down to Ecm=2.1 MeV. Besides, the resonance which was found at Ecm=2.1 MeV [1] remains questionable.
The indirect Trojan Horse Method was applied [2] to measure the astrophysical S-factor for 12C+12C fusion. A strong rise in astrophysical S-factor was reported at low energies, and also the S-factor at 2.1 MeV does not match with that of Ref. [1]. Subsequently, in Ref. [3], it has been claimed that for 12C+12C, astrophysical S-factor decreases at low energies, in contrast to Ref. [2].
In the light of the above scenario, it has become very important to measure the fusion cross sections of 12C+12C directly at low energies and also reduce the uncertainties of the existing measurements, as much as possible. With the upcoming unique FRENA facility at SINP, we plan to study the 12C+12C reaction at low energies. The off-line works that are needed before going for the actual measurement have been done. The present status of this reaction and the off-line works that we have done so far will be presented.
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[3] A.M. Mukhamedzhanov et al, 99, 064618 (2019)
Measurements of long-range two-particle correlations have long provided critical insights into the properties of the matter created in heavy-ion collisions.
I will present results on long-range two-particle correlations for different charged particles multiplicities in pp at
These measurements utilize the Forward Multiplicity Detector (FMD), which allows for unprecedented
We will compare such measurements to predictions from the relativistic hydro model calculation that supposes the QGP and Monte Carlo generators, which helps us to understand the contribution from non-QGP-like processes in an unexplored kinematic regime.
In this research, we tested a new idea to measure proton-distribution radii (
Now,
The experiment was carried out at HIMAC, Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba, in Japan. We measured charge changing cross sections (
In the zeroth-order approximation, charge changing reaction can be attributed to the abrasion of protons in the incident nucleus by nucleons in the target nucleus. A schematic drawing of this process is shown in figure 1. Thus it is approximated by equation (2).
![charge changing][1]
From eq (2), we can derive proton radii if target’s nucleon radius
Thus, when trying to link the charge change cross-section and the proton distribution radius, the consideration of the proton evaporation process shown in fig. 2 is considered to be very important.
In this process, neutrons are firstly abraded, which excites prefragment and results in the evaporation of protons. If this process could be extracted independently, it would be very useful in deriving the proton-distribution radii from the charge change cross sections.
![proton evaporation][2]
In the experiment, we used proton, Be, C, and Al targets. Proton target is particularly sensitive to neutrons in the projectile reflecting the isospin asymmetry of the nucleon-nucleon total cross sections, which amplifies neutron abrasion. In short, the proton-evaporation effect has large portion of the charge changing cross section on proton target
So, we assumed that
In practice, we introduced x for each target and a constant parameter Y as the first and second approximation terms:
\begin{equation}
\sigma_{cc} = \sigma_{\rm{Glauber}} +
x\Bigl(\sigma^{\rm{p}}{\rm{cc}}-[\sigma^{\rm{p}}{\rm{Glauber}}+Y]\Bigr)
\end{equation}
As a result, we figured out that only 4 parameters, x(for 3 targets) and Y could reproduce 15 data of charge changing cross section for Be isotopes very well. It suggests a possibility of this new method for the deduction of proton-distribution radii with high accuracy and efficiency applicable to a wide range of unstable nuclei.
![proton distribution radii][3]
Understanding the nature of two sequential occurrences of the Gamow-Teller transition is important not only for the nuclear structure but also for the particle physics. However, there is little experimental information about the double Gamow-Teller transition at present. Especially, although the existence of a giant resonance state in double Gamow-Teller transition (Double Gamow-Teller Giant Resonance, DGTGR) has been theoretically predicted since 1989, it remains unobserved experimentally. The experimental data of DGTGR is suggested to restrict a value of a nuclear matrix element for the neutrinoless double beta decay, which is essential for the determination of the neutrino mass from the lifetime of the neutrino-less double beta decay.
A possible means to observe DGTGR is a heavy-ion double charge exchange reaction. We performed an experiment at RIBF using the (
We will see an overview of the experiment in the talk.
Differential cross sections of (p,n) and (3He,t) charge-exchange reactions leading to the excitation of the isobaric analog state (IAS) of the target nucleus are calculated with the distorted wave Born approximation. The G-matrix double-folding method is employed to determine the nucleus-nucleus optical potential within the framework of the Lane model. G matrices are obtained from a Brueckner-Hartree-Fock calculation using the Argonne Av18 nucleon-nucleon potential. Target densities have been taken from Skyrme-Hartree-Fock calculations which predict values for the neutron skin thickness of heavy nuclei compatible with current existing data. Calculations are compared with experimental data of the reactions (p,n)IAS on 14C at Elab = 135 MeV and 48Ca at Elab = 134 MeV and Elab = 160 MeV, and (3He,t)IAS on 58Ni, 90Zr, and 208Pb at Elab = 420 MeV. Experimental results are well described without the necessity of any rescaling of the strength of the optical potential. A clear improvement in the description of the differential cross sections for the (3He,t)IAS reactions on 58Ni and 90Zr targets is found when the neutron excess density is used to determine the transition densities. Our results show that the density and isospin dependences of the G matrices play a non-negligible role in the description of the experimental data.
The decay for number of compound nuclei formed in low energy heavy ion reactions have been successfully studied using dynamical cluster decay model (DCM) [R. K. Gupta, W. Scheid, C. Beck et al., Phys. Rev. C {68} (2003) 014610]. In a previous study the decay of
The evolution of shell structure with neutron and proton excess is a compelling interest in nuclear physics over the decade. The existence of the single-proton (single-neutron) shifts is well known experimentally in a series of isotopes (isotones) [1]. Although shell gaps, defined within a given theoretical framework as differences of effective single particle energies (ESPE), are not observables, they are useful quantities to assess the underlying structure of nuclei [2]. The nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction is originally due to meson exchange processes as predicted by Yukawa, and its tensor-force part is one of the most distinct manifestations of this meson exchange origin [3]. The introduction of tensor force improved the systematic agreement between model predictions and experimental data in the shell evolution of exotic nuclei, and also the spin-orbit splitting [4]. A region of experimental interest nowadays is around the magic numbers Z=28 and N =50, where measurements of the decay properties in Co, Ni, Cu and Zn reveal the magic character of the nucleus 78Ni. The experimental results in Cu isotopes suggest that the crossing between the 2p3/2 and 1f5/2 proton levels take place in the nucleus 75Cu, which implies that the ground-state of 79Cu has spin-parity 5/2- [2]. It has been examined using different mean-field interactions such as Skyrme, Gogny and SEI-interactions that the tensor interaction may not always be necessary to reproduce the crossing between the 2p3/2 and 1f5/2 single-particle proton levels in neutron-rich Cu and Ni isotopes.
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In general, the quantum many-body wave function obtained by theoretical calculation contains an enormous amount of information about many-body correlation. However, theoretical analyses in nuclear physics are mainly performed for quantities such as one- and two-body densities, which are obtained after integrating out most of the information in a many-body wave function.
On the other hand, in the field of quantum chemistry, methods have been developed to visualize the information on the correlation of all electrons and applied to the structure study of molecular systems[1]. We are now attempting to apply such a method to nuclear systems. As the first step, we start with finding the most probable arrangement of nucleon coordinates, i.e., calculating the set of position and spin coordinates that maximizes the square of the many-body wave function.
In this talk, we apply this method to Hartree-Fock and Hartree-Fock+BCS wave functions of p-shell and sd-shell nuclei. We found some alpha-cluster-like correlations out of the wave functions obtained without any assumption of cluster structure. We also discuss the effects of pairing correlation on the cluster structure by comparing the results between HF and HF+BCS.
[1] Yu Liu, Terry J. Frankcombe, and Timothy W. Schmidt, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 13385 (2016).
Radiation Portal Monitors (RPMs) are highly sensitive fixed installation systems designed to detect illicit radioactive material trafficking. RPMs are typically installed with detectors that have a high detection efficiency, such as plastic detectors. However, due to these detectors' limited energy resolution, radioisotope identification from their spectra is often not of interest. This research describes a radioisotope identification technique based on an artificial neural network that was applied to the gamma spectrum received from the large-size EJ-200 plastic detector. The simulated gamma spectra using MCNP-5 are used to generate the training data set. With an Exact Match Ratio of 98.8 percent, this method can precisely detect a single or mixture of radioisotopes in the gamma spectrum. In addition, the model can analyses gamma spectrum with up to 10% gain shift, up to 40° incident angle, and sealed source with good precision. This study also presents the model's sensitivity to each isotope in order to attain a True Positive rate of 95%. For radioisotopes detection, this model is usable on RPMs employing a large-size EJ-200 plastic scintillation detector.
A gas detector with a size of 140×140×140 mm
The GRAMS (Gamma-Ray and AntiMatter Survey) project that aims to observe MeV gamma rays and to search for dark matter at the same time started in 2021 on full scale. The MeV gamma-ray region is important for understanding phenomena in the universe such as nucleosynthesis and high-energy particle acceleration. The detector for the project is a large LArTPC (Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber) with a size of 140
The nuclear matter compressibility (
In this study, we performed a ISGMR measurement using the
The existence of the permanent Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) implies the time reversal symmetry violation. This violation directly means CP violation by the CPT theorem, and it would be expected to explain the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry.
The T-violation predicted by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics for the electron EDM is too small to be measured with current experimental technique and the larger EDM would indicate a new physics beyond SM. This tiny effect of EDM can be enhanced by the relativistic effects in the heavy atoms such as francium (Fr).
In this talk, we will see the overview of the experimental setup of the search for EDM using laser cooled 221-Fr atoms, produced from the alpha decay of 225-Ac, which can be used as the generator for 221-Fr, and has a long lifetime ~ 10 days.
The 221-Fr nucleus has a large octupole deformation effect and can become the candidate to search for the nuclear EDM. The new experimental apparatus to produce the high intensity 225-Ac source, and laser cooling for 221-Fr is now developing. The present status will be discussed.