Pairing interaction and self-consistent densities in neutron-rich nuclei

Abstract

Particle and pairing densities in spherical even–even neutron-rich nuclei are studied within the Skyrme–Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov approach with the density-dependent pairing interaction. The influence of the density dependence of the pairing interaction on asymptotic properties of nucleonic distributions are analyzed. It is demonstrated that the size of the neutron halo dramatically depends on the behavior of the pairing interaction at low density.