Published May 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Search for the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock solutions for chiral rotation in N=75 isotones

  • 1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University, ul. Hoza 69, PL-00681, Warsaw (Poland)
  • 2. Institut de Recherches Subatomiques IN2P3-CNRS/Universite Louis Pasteur, F-67037 Strasbourg Cedex 2 (France)

Description

A search for self-consistent solutions for the chiral rotational bands in the N=75 isotones 130Cs, 132La, 134Pr, and 136Pm is performed within the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock cranking approach using SKM* and SLy4 parametrizations. The dependence of the solutions on the time-odd contributions in the energy functional is studied. From among the four isotones considered, self-consistent chiral solutions are obtained only in 132La. The microscopic calculations are compared with the 132La experimental data and with results of a classical model that contains all the mechanisms underlying the chirality of the collective rotational motion. Strong similarities between the Hartree-Fock and classical model results are found. The suggestion formulated earlier by the authors that the chiral rotation cannot exist below a certain critical frequency is further illustrated and discussed, together with the microscopic origin of a transition from planar to chiral rotation in nuclei. We also formulate the separability rule by which the tilted-axis-cranking solutions can be inferred from three independent principal-axis-cranking solutions corresponding to three different axes of rotation

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
73
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 054308-054308.22
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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(c) 2006 The American Physical Society