Published March 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Minimal mass size of a stable 3He cluster

  • 1. IFIC, CSIC-Universidad de Valencia, Apartado Postal 22085, E-46071 Valencia (Spain)
  • 2. Institute de Recherches Subatomiques, IN2P3-CNRS/Universite Louis Pasteur, F-67037 Strasbourg (France)

Description

The minimal number of 3He atoms required to form a bound cluster has been estimated by means of a diffusion Monte Carlo procedure within the fixed-node approximation. Several importance sampling wave functions have been employed in order to consider different shell-model configurations. The resulting upper bound for the minimal number is 32 atoms

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
71
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 035201-035201.2
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36090134
Subject category
S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; S36: MATERIALS SCIENCE;
Descriptors DEI
ATOMIC CLUSTERS; ATOMS; DIFFUSION; GROUND STATES; HELIUM 3; MASS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SAMPLING; SHELL MODELS; WAVE FUNCTIONS
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; ENERGY LEVELS; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; FUNCTIONS; HELIUM ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR MODELS; NUCLEI; STABLE ISOTOPES

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