Nuclear vorticity in isoscalar E1 modes: Skyrme-random-phase approximation analysis

P.-G. Reinhard, V. O. Nesterenko, A. Repko, and J. Kvasil
Phys. Rev. C 89, 024321 – Published 27 February 2014

Abstract

Two basic concepts of nuclear vorticity, hydrodynamical (HD) and Rawenthall-Wambach (RW), are critically inspected. As a test case, we consider the interplay of irrotational and vortical motion in isoscalar electric dipole E1(T=0) modes in 208Pb, namely the toroidal and compression modes. The modes are described in a self-consistent random-phase approximation (RPA) with the Skyrme force SLy6. They are examined in terms of strength functions, transition densities, current fields, and form factors. It is shown that the RW conception (suggesting the upper component of the nuclear current as the vorticity indicator) is not robust. The HD vorticity is not easily applicable either because the definition of a velocity field is too involved in nuclear systems. Instead, the vorticity is better characterized by the toroidal strength which closely corresponds to HD treatment and is approximately decoupled from the continuity equation.

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  • Received 26 December 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.89.024321

©2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

P.-G. Reinhard1, V. O. Nesterenko2, A. Repko3, and J. Kvasil3

  • 1Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Universität Erlangen, D-91058, Erlangen, Germany
  • 2Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow region, 141980, Russia
  • 3Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Charles University, CZ-18000, Prague 8, Czech Republic

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Vol. 89, Iss. 2 — February 2014

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