Systematic study of the relationship between nuclear structure and reactions for the 10Be nucleus

Abstract

Abstract We systematically investigate the relationship between the nuclear structure and reaction in the 10Be nucleus using a theoretical framework. The structure of the 10Be nucleus is constructed with a cluster model based on a microscopic viewpoint. In this paper, the 10Be nucleus is prepared with different structures by manipulating the parameters of an effective nucleon–nucleon interaction. The nuclear structure and expectation values of physical quantities are drastically changed by the modification. We summarize such changes and show the effects on the elastic and inelastic scatterings for proton and 12C targets in the microscopic coupled-channel calculation. Of especial interest, we recently reported the visualization of the dineutron correlation in 10Be on proton inelastic scattering in [Phys. Rev. C 104, 034613 (2021)]. In this preceding work, we found that changing the degree of dineutron correlation in 10Be leads to drastic changes of the inelastic cross section for the 2$_2^+$ state. The development (or breaking) of the dineutron correlation is governed by the strength of the spin–orbit interaction of the structure calculation. However, in the previous work, some of the realistic physical points were missing, for example, the binding energy (BE). Therefore, we reconstruct the 10Be nucleus by adjusting the effective nucleon–nucleon interaction to obtain a reasonable BE of the ground state. With this improvement, we again discuss the dineutron correlation in the 10Be nucleus. We reconfirm the way to measure the degree of development (or breaking) of the dineutron cluster structure: its sensitivity to the inelastic cross section of the 2$_2^+$ state of 10Be. Subject Index cluster model, folding model, dineutron correlation, effective nucleon-nucleon interaction.