Implications of a matter-radius measurement for the structure of carbon-22

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2013.04.055zbMATH Open1311.81246arXiv1303.6720OpenAlexW2032325392MaRDI QIDQ2345002FDOQ2345002

Authors: B. D. Acharya, Chen Ji, Daniel Phillips 

Publication date: 19 May 2015

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study Borromean 2n-halo nuclei using effective field theory. We compute the universal scaling function that relates the mean-square matter radius of the 2n halo to dimensionless ratios of two- and three-body energies. We use the experimental value of the rms matter radius of 22C measured by Tanaka et al. to put constraints on its 2n separation energy and the 20C-n virtual energy. We also explore the consequences of these constraints for the existence of excited Efimov states in this nucleus. We find that, for 22C to have an rms matter radius within 1-sigma of the experimental value, the two-neutron separation energy of 22C needs to be below 100 keV. Consequently, this three-body halo system can have an excited Efimov state only if the 20C-n system has a resonance within 1 keV of the scattering threshold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6720

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35)

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• A renormalisation-group treatment of two-body scattering
• The three-boson system at next-to-leading order in an effective field theory for systems with a large scattering length
• Narrow resonances in effective field theory

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