PROTON-NEUTRON PAIRING EFFECTS IN MEDIUM AND HEAVY MASS NUCLEI

Authors
CIVITARESE O REBOIRO M
Citation
O. Civitarese et M. Reboiro, PROTON-NEUTRON PAIRING EFFECTS IN MEDIUM AND HEAVY MASS NUCLEI, Physical review. C. Nuclear physics, 56(2), 1997, pp. 1179-1182
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Physical review. C. Nuclear physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
05562813
Volume
56
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1179 - 1182
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2813(1997)56:2<1179:PPEIMA>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
The consistency of the BCS approach in treating proton-neutron pairing correlations is examined. Generalized BCS transformations, which comb ine proton and neutron states, are used to extract the pairing gap par ameter. This procedure gives energy gains due to the inclusion of prot on-neutron pairing correlations, but the effect is found to be restric ted to small values of the neutron excess (N-Z).