Abstract
The Efimov effect in the halo nucleus Be, considered as a three-body (Be) system, is studied employing separable potential for the binary systems. Assuming a possibility for the existence of a low lying -orbital state for the halo neutrons with Be as core, we investigate its effect on the possibility of occurrence of the Efimov states by computing the three-body integral equations. A virtual state of 2 to 4 keV for the -Be binary system predicts not only the ground state energy for Be, which is in reasonable agreement with the experimental value, but also shows excited states close to about zero binding energy for the halo neutrons.
- Received 14 March 1997
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.56.R5
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