Nuclear spectroscopy of 40–48Ca isotopes

Abstract

The nature of the excited states of the 40–48Ca isotopes is analyzed in the region of energies below the nucleon separation threshold. A peculiar feature of the 40–48Ca isotopes is the predominant filling of the 1f 7/2 neutron shell. Interaction between the neutrons of the 1f 7/2 shell and the nucleons of the 1d2s core results in formation of multiparticle excited states with a few vacancies in the 1d2s shell. The energies of single-particle proton states in the 40–48Ca isotopes are calculated using the Hartree-Fock potential with the Skyrme potential. The manner in which the energy of single-particle states varies, the magic numbers N = 20, 28 are formed, and the charge and nucleon density vary in the 40–48Ca isotopes as the neutron number increases from 20 to 28 is shown. Coherent interactions of the 1f 7/2 shell and 1d2s core nucleons also manifest themselves in the region above the nucleon separation threshold, leading to the configuration and isospin splitting of the GDR.