Single-particle and collective motions from nuclear many-body correlation (PCM2025)

Quenching of Gamow-Teller and forbidden transition strength

4 Mar 2025, 10:55

20m

Main Lecture Hall (University of Aizu)

session #1

Speaker

Toshio Suzuki (Nihon University)

Description

Gamow-Teller (GT) strengths in medium and heavy nuclei in the giant-resonance region are suppressed compared to the Ikeda sum rule [1,2]. GT strengths in low-lying states in sd-shell and pf-shell nuclei, for example, have also been found to be suppressed: the quenching factors for the axial-vector coupling, $q_A=g_A^{eff}/g_A^{free}$, are $\sim$0.77 and $\sim$0.74 for $sd$-shell [3] and $pf$-shell [4], respectively. The origin of the quenching of the GT strength can be attributed to the restriction of the configuration space and the contributions from two-body currents, for example, those from the coupling to non-nucleonic degrees of freedom such as ${\mathrm{\Delta }}_{33}$ resonance [5]. The contributions from the two-body current were studied in the GT $\beta$-decay in selected $sd$-shell nuclei with the valence space in-medium renormalization group (VS-IMSRG) method [6] and their effects were found to be important in enhancing the quenching factor by $\sim$0.07.

Here, we study the effects of extending the configuration space: pf-shell components are included to evaluate GT $\beta$-decay strengths in $sd$-shell nuclei. An effective interaction in the $sd$-$pf$ shell obtained by the extended Kuo-Krenciglowa (EKK) method starting from chiral interactions is used [7,8]. The effective interaction proves to be successful in descriptions of the structure of the island of inversion [7]. It also reproduces the GT strength distribution in ${}^{40}$Ar in the $s{d}^{-2}p{f}^2$ +$s{d}^{-4}p{f}^4$ shell-model space with $q_A$=1 [8]. The extension of the model space to the $sd$-$pf$ shell, including up to 2p-2h excitations, in the study of the GT $\beta$-decay in the $sd$-shell is found to enhance the quenching factor by $\sim$0.05 compared to the conventional Hamiltonians in the sd-shell [9]. The effects of more than 2p-2h excitations are estimated by including second-order core polarization contributions [5,10].

Next, we discuss the quenching of the strength in forbidden transitions. $\beta$-decay rates in the ${}^{208}$Pb region, including the waiting-point nuclei with N=126, are important for r-process nucleosynthesis. In this region of nuclei, there are considerable contributions from first-forbidden transitions. Large quenching in $g_A$ and $g_V$ (vector-coupling constant), or matrix elements of spin-dipole and Coulomb operators, in the first-forbidden transitions are found in the study of beta-decays in N=126 isotones [11,12], in nuclei in the south region of ${}^{208}$Pb [13], and in N=125 and 126 isotones [14].

[1] C. Gaarde et al, Nucl. Phys. A 369, 258 (1981).
[2] T. Wakasa, H. Sakai et al., Phys Rev C 55, 2909 (1991); K. Yako, H. Sakai et al., Phys. Lett. B 615, 193 (2005).
[3] W. A. Richter, S. S. Mkhize and B. A. Brown, Phy. Rev. C 78, 064302 (2008).
[4] G. Martinez-Pinedo, A. Poves, E. Caurier, and A. P. Zuker, PRC 53 (1996) R2602.
[5] I. S. Towner, Physics Reports 155, 263 (1987).
[6] P. Gysbers, G. Hagen, J. D. Holt et al., Nature Physics 15, 428 (2019).
[7] N. Tsunoda, T. Otsuka, N. Shimizu, M. Hjorth-Jensen, K. Takayanagi and T. Suzuki, Phys. Rev. C 95, 021304 (2020); N. Tsunoda, T. Otsuka, K. Takayanagi, N. Shimizu, T. Suzuki, Y. Utsuno, S. Yoshida, H. Ueno, Nature 587, 66 (2020).
[8] T. Suzuki and N. Shimizu, Phys. Rev. C 108, 014611 (2023).
[9] T. Suzuki and N. Shimizu, Frontiers in Physics 12, 1434598 (2024).
[10] K. Shimizu, M. Ichimura and A. Arima, Nucl. Phys. A226, 282 (1974).
[11] T. Suzuki, T. Yoshida, T. Kajino, and T. Otsuka, Phys. Rev. C 85, 015802 (2012); T. Suzuki, S. Shibagaki, T. Yoshida, T. Kajino and T. Otsuka, The Astrophys. J. 859, 133 (2018).
[12] Q. Zhi et al, Phys. Rev. C 87, 025803 (2013).
[13] S. Sharma, P. C. Srivastava, A. Kumar, T. Suzuki, C. Yuan, and N. Shimizu, Phys. Rev. C 110, 024320 (2024).
[14] A. Kumar, N. Shimizu, Y. Utsuno, C. Yuan, and P. Srivastava, Phys. Rev. C 109, 064319 (2024),

Presentation materials

PCM2025-Suzuki - Toshio Suzuki.pdf