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Time reversal violating Magnetic Quadrupole Moment in heavy deformed nuclei
2018
The existence of permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) and magnetic quadrupole moments (MQMs) violate both time reversal invariance (T) and parity (P). Following the CPT theorem they also violate combined CP symmetry. Nuclear EDMs are completely screened in atoms and molecules while interaction between electrons and MQMs creates atomic and molecular EDMs which can be measured and used to test CP-violation theories. Nuclear MQMs are produced by the nucleon-nucleon T, P-odd interaction and by nucleon EDMs. In this work we study the effect of enhancement of the nuclear MQMs due to the nuclear quadrupole deformation. Using the Nilsson model we calculate the nuclear MQMs for deformed nuclei o…
Probing low-mass vector bosons with parity nonconservation and nuclear anapole moment measurements in atoms and molecules
2017
In the presence of P-violating interactions, the exchange of vector bosons between electrons and nucleons induces parity-nonconserving (PNC) effects in atoms and molecules, while the exchange of vector bosons between nucleons induces anapole moments of nuclei. We perform calculations of such vector-mediated PNC effects in Cs, Ba$^+$, Yb, Tl, Fr and Ra$^+$ using the same relativistic many-body approaches as in earlier calculations of standard-model PNC effects, but with the long-range operator of the weak interaction. We calculate nuclear anapole moments due to vector boson exchange using a simple nuclear model. From measured and predicted (within the standard model) values for the PNC ampli…
Competition between Allowed and First-Forbidden β Decay: The Case of Hg208→Tl208
2020
The β decay of ^{208}Hg into the one-proton hole, one neutron-particle _{81}^{208}Tl_{127} nucleus was investigated at CERN-ISOLDE. Shell-model calculations describe well the level scheme deduced, validating the proton-neutron interactions used, with implications for the whole of the N>126, Z<82 quadrant of neutron-rich nuclei. While both negative and positive parity states with spin 0 and 1 are expected within the Q_{β} window, only three negative parity states are populated directly in the β decay. The data provide a unique test of the competition between allowed Gamow-Teller and Fermi, and first-forbidden β decays, essential for the understanding of the nucleosynthesis of heavy nuclei in…
Simple theory for scotogenic dark matter with residual matter-parity
2020
Dark matter stability can result from a residual matter-parity symmetry surviving spontaneous breaking of an extended gauge symmetry. We propose the simplest scotogenic dark matter completion of the original SVS theory (Phys.Rev. D22 (1980) 738), in which the "dark sector" particles as well as matter-parity find a natural theoretical origin in the model. We briefly comment on its main features.
Octupole correlations in the structure of02+bands in theN=88nuclei150Sm and152Gd
2013
Knowledge of the exact microscopic structure of the 0${}_{1}$${}^{+}$ ground state and first excited 0${}_{2}$${}^{+}$ state in ${}^{150}$Sm is required to understand the branching of double \ensuremath{\beta} decay to these states from ${}^{150}$Nd. The detailed spectroscopy of ${}^{150}$Sm and ${}^{152}$Gd has been studied using (\ensuremath{\alpha},xn) reactions and the \ensuremath{\gamma}-ray arrays AFRODITE and JUROGAM II. Consistently strong $E$1 transitions are observed between the excited ${K}^{\ensuremath{\pi}}$ $=$ 0${}_{2}$${}^{+}$ bands and the lowest negative parity bands in both nuclei. These results are discussed in terms of the possible permanent octupole deformation in the …
Spectroscopy ofB13via theC13(t,He3)reaction at115AMeV
2009
Gamow-Teller and dipole transitions to final states in $^{13}\mathrm{B}$ were studied via the $^{13}\mathrm{C}(t,^{3}\mathrm{He})$ reaction at ${E}_{t}=115A$ MeV. In addition to the strong Gamow-Teller transition to the $^{13}\mathrm{B}$ ground state, a weaker Gamow-Teller transition to a state at 3.6 MeV was found. This state was assigned a spin-parity of $3/{2}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ by comparison with shell-model calculations using the WBP and WBT interactions which were modified to allow for mixing between $n\ensuremath{\hbar}\ensuremath{\omega}$ and $(n+2)\ensuremath{\hbar}\ensuremath{\omega}$ configurations. This assignment agrees with a recent result from a lifetime measurement of excited…
Prompt and delayed spectroscopy ofAt199
2010
The neutron-deficient nucleus $^{199}\mathrm{At}$ has been studied through $\ensuremath{\gamma}$-ray and electron spectroscopy, using the recoil-decay tagging technique. Two experiments were conducted, using a gas-filled recoil separator with a focal-plane spectrometer alone and together with a germanium-detector array at the target position. The resulting level scheme for $^{199}\mathrm{At}$ includes a new isomer with a half-life of 0.80(5) $\ensuremath{\mu}$s and a spin and parity of ($29/{2}^{+}$). The $13/{2}^{+}$ isomer, which de-excites via an $M2$ transition to the $9/{2}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ ground state, was measured to have a half-life of 70(20) ns. Our earlier version of the level s…
Microscopic description of low-lying two-phonon states: Electromagnetic transitions
2003
Microscopic description of low-lying two-phonon states in even-even nuclei is introduced. The main building blocks are the quasiparticle random-phase approximation (QRPA) phonons. A realistic microscopic nuclear Hamiltonian, based on the Bonn one-boson-exchange potential, is diagonalized in a basis containing one-phonon and two-phonon components, coupled to a given angular momentum and parity. The QRPA equations are directly used in deriving the equations of motion for the two-phonon states. The Pauli principle is taken into account by diagonalizing the metric matrix and discarding the zero-norm states. The electromagnetic transition matrix elements are derived in terms of the metric matrix…
Electromagnetic properties of some positive parity dipole states described in terms of quadrupole and octupole interacting bosons
1990
The first three positive parity dipole states predicted by a phenomenological quadrupole-octupole boson Hamiltonian are extensively studied. Their coupling to the neighboring positive and negative parity states, due to the {ital M}1 and {ital E}{lambda} ({lambda}=1,3) transitions, respectively, are considered. Special attention is paid to the lowest two states which are of collective {ital M}1 nature. The signature which distinguishes them from the {ital M}1 state describing the scissors mode is also discussed.
Parity nonconservation in the γ decay of polarized17/2−isomers inTc93
2005
The determination of the ${0}^{\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{}}\ensuremath{-}{180}^{\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{}}$ asymmetry (${A}_{\ensuremath{\gamma}}$), which arises because of the parity nonconserving matrix element, in the 751-keV \ensuremath{\gamma} decay of polarized $17/{2}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ isomers in $^{93}\mathrm{Tc}$ with respect to the direction of polarization is reported. A combined analysis of the present results together with those from our earlier work yields an effect of two standard deviations.