1207.6154 (K. Kaneko et al.)

Coulomb energy difference as a probe of isospin-symmetry breaking in the
upper fp-shell nuclei    [PDF]

K. Kaneko, T. Mizusaki, Y. Sun, S. Tazaki, G. de Angelis

The anomaly in Coulomb energy differences (CED) between the isospin T=1 states in the odd-odd N=Z nucleus 70Br and the analogue states in its even-even partner 70Se has remained a puzzle. This is a direct manifestation of isospin-symmetry breaking in effective nuclear interactions. Here, we perform large-scale shell-model calculations for nuclei with A=66-78 using the new filter diagonalization method based on the Sakurai-Sugiura algorithm. The calculations reproduce well the experimental CED. The observed negative CED for A=70 are accounted for by the cross-shell neutron excitations from the fp-shell to the g9/2 intruder orbit with the enhanced electromagnetic spin-orbit contribution at this special nucleon number.

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