α-Like quartetting in the excited states of proton-neutron pairing Hamiltonians

Autor: M. Sambataro, N. Sandulescu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Physics Letters B, Vol 820, Iss , Pp 136476- (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0370-2693
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136476
Popis: Previous studies have shown that the ground state of systems of nucleons composed by an equal number of protons and neutrons interacting via proton-neutron pairing forces can be described accurately by a condensate of α-like quartets. Here we extend these studies to the low-lowing excited states of these systems and show that these states can be accurately described by breaking a quartet from the ground state condensate and replacing it with an “excited” quartet. This approach, which is analogous to the one-broken-pair approximation employed for like-particle pairing, is analyzed for various isovector and isovector-isoscalar pairing Hamiltonians which can be solved exactly by diagonalization.
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