Triton Clustering in Neutron Rich Nuclei

2009/02/02 by Syed Afsar Abbas, Abbas, S. Afsar, Farooq Hussain Bhat +1
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Nuclear physics research studies #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0902.0299

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Abstract

Recently, it has been reported that as one goes from oxygen to fluorine, just the addition of one more proton, provides extraordinary stability to fluorine which can bind six more neutrons beyond what oxygen can. It is shown here that this surprising stability can be understood if neutron rich nuclei, ²⁴O and ²⁷F are treated as bound states of eight and nine-tritons respectively. Also the recently discovered ⁴²Si is predicted to have a bound state structure of fourteen tritons.

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