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Fox, George
(1979)
Charge Symmetry in ¹³N and ¹³C: a Coupled-Channel Model.
Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology.
doi:10.7907/KPCM-RE19.
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A set of coupled-channel differential equations based on a rotationally distorted optical potential is used to calculate the wave functions required to evaluate the gamma ray transition rate from the first excited state to the ground state in ¹³C and ¹³N. The bremsstrahlung differential cross section of low energy protons is also calculated and compared with existing data. The marked similarity between the potentials determined at each resonance level in both nuclei supports the hypothesis of the charge symmetry of nuclear forces by explaining the deviation of the ratios of the
experimental E1 transition strengths from unity.
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CHARGE SYMMETRY IN

13
13
N AND

A COUPLED-CHANNEL MODEL

Thesis by
George Fox

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy

California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California

1979
(Submitted May 11, 1979)

ii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Deeply felt appreciation is due Professors Tom Tombrello and Willy
Fowler, and Barbara Zimmerman for their encouragement, friendship, and
patience.

The opportunity to pursue personal goals and at the same

time contribute something to society will never be forgotten.

Special

thanks are due the California Institute of Technology for providing a
Graduat e Research Assistanceship and the National Science Foundation
(Grant

PHY76- 83685

and through it the public who supports higher

education and publicly financed research .
The data were willing ly provided by Claus Rolfs and the initial
suggestion for considering a coupled-channel calculation on the
12

c(p,y)

13
N gamma capture was fr om Joseph G. Polchinski.

This thesis is dedicated to my wife Karen for her l ove and
patience.

iii

ABSTRACT
A set of coupled-channel differential equations based on a
rotationally distorted optical potential is used to calculate the
wave functions required to evaluate the gamma ray transition rate
from the first excited state to the ground state in

13

c and 13N.

The bremsstrahlung differential cross section of low energy protons
is also calculated and compared with existing data.

The marked

similarity between the potentials determined at each resonance
level in both nuclei supports the hypothesis of the charge symmetry
of nuclear forces by explaining the deviation of the ratios of the
experimental El transition strengths from unity.

iv

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title

Part

Page

I.

INTRODUCTION

II.

THE COUPLED- CHANNEL EQUATIONS

III.

A.

The Rotational and Vibrational Models

B.

Identical Particles and Spectroscopic Factors

GAMMA RAY TRANSITIONS

ll

A. Transition Probabilities for Multiple Channels
B. Free Particle Matrix Element s

IV .

APPLICATION TO GAMMA TRANSITIONS IN MASS 13

15

v.

DISCUSSION

21

APPENDIX
A.

Numerical Solution of Coupled Second Order

24

Differential Equati on System
l .

Solut i on by iteration of coupled equations

2.

Boundary conditions and solution search routines

3.

Computation of external matching functions

B.

Gamma. Ray Transition Differential Cros s Section Formulas

29

C.

Nuclear and Coulomb Potential Shapes

31

D.

Computer Program Information

REFERENCES

TABLES

FIGURES

32

I.
As a

conse~uence

INTRODUCTION

of the charge symmetry of nuclear forces,

corresponding El transitions in conjugate nuclei are expected to have
e~ual

strengths [Warburton and Weneser

and references therein ].

2- 4 f
or nuc 1 el. Wl"th A = 15 - 43 revea1 th a t a t
Recent d a t a compl· 1 a t 1ons
present the absolute strengths of 18 pairs o f such El transitions are
available for comparison.
nuc l ei (fig .

The rati os o f these El strengths in conjugate

1) deviate from equality by appreciable factors - in

apparent disagreement with the charge symmetry hypothesis.

This

conclusion must , however , be relaxed since the El trans itions in all of

these nuclei are rather weak (El - 10- 3 to 10- W.u. ) , and strong
cancellations may be taking place in the matrix eleme nts. 5

1 2

largest deviation has been found '

The

in the A = 15 system (factor ~ 160 ,

fi g . 1) but h ere the El strengths are very small

6 W. u .).

(El- 10-

Such big differences in corresponding El transitions should ,
however , be les s likely if the El strengths are large, as in the case
of the A = 13 system .
in

13c [r

The El transition from the first excited state

= 0 .44 ± 0.05 eV; ref . 6 ] and 1 3N [r y = 0 . 64 ± 0.07 eV;

weighted average of refs. 7-10] h ave exceptionally large strengths of

0 . 04 and 0 .1 3 W.u ., respectively .

Thus, the observed st rength rat i o of

3 . 2 ± 0.7 for these El transitions represents a more serious challenge
to the charge symmetry concept .

The subject of the present work is a

theoretical investigation of this discrepancy i n the A = 13 mirror
system .

The El transition rule quoted above is exact in the long-wavelength
approximation due to the vanishing of the isoscalar matrix element.

The next correction term in the isoscalar matrix element is of the order
(kr) , and hence the contribution to an isoscalar radiative width from
this term relative to a normal isovector radiative width will be of the
orde r 1 ( kr ) 4 ~ 3 x 10-6 for E

= 3 MeV and a nuclear radius of 2.8 fm .

This correction term is much too small to explain the observed
discrepancy.
The neutron-proton mass difference as well as the Coulomb force s
will cause isospin mixing of the predominantly T = 1/2 low-lying states
with T = 3/2 states at excitat i on energies

11

~ 15 MeV.

In the

isobaric spin representation, the mixed states can be described

12

T = 3/2>
I '!'hi gh> = S I T = ~ > - a

and

with a

+ S2 = 1.

I T = 3/2>

If the Hamiltonian is written as a charge-independent

(isospin-conserving ) part H

plus a charge- dependent part H , then the

isospin-mixing element M = is related to the
coefficients a and S and to the observed difference D in the excitation
energies of the two isospin states by the expression M = aSD.
D - 15 MeV and a conservative value
two coefficients is aS

- 10- 2 .

12

For

of M ~ 200 keV, the product of the

Since the low-lying states have a

predominantly T = ~ isospin (i.e., a~ 1 ), one obtains a mixing
coefficient 8 - 10-

as an order of magnitude estimate.

This

coefficient together with an assumed large intrinsic El-matrix element

of 1 W. u. for the T = 3/2- state to ground state decay leads to a
contribution of 10state .

W.u. in the El decay of the first excited

The contribution is still 2-3 orders of magnitude too small

when compared with the observed strengths and hence cannot contribute
significantly to the explanation of the discrepancy .

However, for the

A = 15-43 nuclei this contribution is of the same order as the observed
strengths and hence can play a significant role in their El- transitions .
We have found that a sizable component corresponding to a nucleon
coupled to the zero isospin first excited state of

12

c in the wave

functions of both the ground and first excited states of

13

13

c and

appears to be responsible for the difference in the mirror El strengths
In the t r ansition amplitude, this component in each of the levels
interferes destructively with the component associated with the
ground state.

12

The resulting effect is to reduce the value of the

width and in the

13

13

N cross section to lower the high energy tail of the

resonance .
As a further test of the model, we have calculated the bremsstrahlung differential cross section for protons on 12c up to a beam energy
of 2 MeV in the laboratory system at 6

= 0 0 and 90 0 .

find that the reaction proceeds through a resonance in

In this case we
13

N which

interferes with the incoming distorted wave in the transition to t he
first excited state of

13

N.

This resonance with energy 1.565 MeV in the

center of mass and total spin, parity JTI = 3/2

can be described as

consisting mainly of a proton coupled to the first excited state of
because the P

312

shell if filled in

cannot add another P

312

nucleon to

12
12

12

c( gs ); thus, in the shell model,one

C(gs).

This results in the narrow

resonance observed in the differential cross section at 6
second resonance at 6 . 976 MeV with Jn

= 0° . A

= 1/2- aids in modeling the

incoming wave and in conjunction with the previous resonance, the
differential cross sections at 6

= 0° and 6 = 90°.

Section II presents the standard deformed spherical potential
coupled- channel model .

In addition, this section deals with the

normalization problems that arise in defining spectroscopic factors .
Section III outlines the changes in gamma ray matrix elemen ts n eeded
t.o compute transitions with multiple input spins and channels.

Als o

included is a solution to the problem of computing the matrix elements
between free (continuum) particle states.

Section IV applies thes e

ideas to understanding charge symmetry in mass 13 by computin g the
capture and bremsstrahlung cross sections.

Section V is a discussion

and interpretation of the models presented abo ve with suggestions for
further study .

The Appendix contains all the relevant information for

creating and running the program on a high speed digital computer .

II.
A.

THE COUPLED-CHANNEL EQUATIONS
Th e Rotational and Vibrat ional Model s
Starting from an optical model potential of the Woods -Saxon form ,

Tamura

14 derive s the form o f th e o ff-di agonal potentials when s peci f ic

assumptions are made concerni ng the shape o f the nuclear surface.

The

point o f v iew t a ken i s that the nucl ear potential is dir ectl y proportional t o th e mass distri bution withi n the core.

Thus we can expand the

r adius of the nuclear s urface i nto any f orm which allows easy insertion
into the opt i cal potential and s ub sequent expansion to accommodate
coupled channel modes.

The u s u a l model s e mployed are t he vibrational

model which expands the rad ius i n a full set of spherical harmoni cs and
the r otational model whi ch assumes an axially symmetric deformed nucleus
expans ion.

It is u sual to neglect the hi gher order expans i ons of the

spin- orbit potential and keep only the sphe ric al term .

In the discussion

of Secti on V a brief analysis of t he spin-orbit p otent i al and its ori g i n
will be presented i n an att e mpt to illuminate the proper procedure to
fo llow .

Similarly , for the Coulomb pot ential we have only inc l uded

diagonal terms,as the o ff- diagonal terms a r e much smaller than t he
corre spond ing nuc l ear o f f - d iagonal terms .

We first consider the t otal

Hamiltonian ,

H = T + Ht + V(r, ~)

II . l

where T i s the kinetic ene rgy of the proj ectile,Ht is the target

Hamiltonian, and V(r , ~) is a generalized potential describing the

interaction of the target with the projectile.
has Schroedinger equation solutions

InMn

The target Hamiltonian

given by

wn

II. ~

where In•Mu are the core spin and it s projection and wn is the energy of
the core state.

One now writes the total wave function,

II.3

-l

Jnt j
n n

E M (j I m M IJM)Yn .
mj n n n j n
~nJnmj

~I M

n n

where X
is the spin wave function of the projectile, RJ n . (r) is
sms
n~nJn
the r adial wave function of the projectile with total spin and
projection J,M, formed from coupling core spin I
spin j

momentum t

The t otal project ile spin j

and projectile total

is formed from orbital angular

and the particle intrinsic spin.

To get the coupled- channel equations we now insert the total wave
function o/ into the full Schroedinger equation, multiply on the left by
(Yt . 0 ~I )jMand integrate over all variables except r to obtain
nJn

rr.4

'"

n ~n ' n '

where En= E
r.

< (Yn

~n'Jn'

®~I

n'

)JMjvj(Yn

~nJn

~~I )JM >

- wn' and the matrix element is over all variables except

The crux of the problem is now reflected in the evaluation of the

matrix elements of the generalized potential.
In general we can expand the potential as

rr.5

V=r. v(t)(r)(Q(t)·Y,)
A,t A

where the subscript A denotes the potential of tenor rank A and the
superscript t distinguishes terms of different character.

YA is an

angular momentum function of the projectile's angular variables and
QA(t) operates only on the coordinates of the core.

A calculation of

the above matrix element yields

rr.6

=

r. ' \ (t) t,A

II I'> A(tj i, t'j 'I' ;AJs)

where A(tji,t'j'I';AJs) is a completely geometrical factor given by

II.·7
!.:

!.:

(2j+l) 2 (2j '+l) 2 (U 1 ool.\o)W(jij 'I' ;J.\)W(R.jR.'j' ;s.\)

and the reduced matrix element is defined as

In the r otational model the nuclear surface is expanded as

II. 9
where R

= r Al/

3 is the usual optical model radius formula,r =l.25fm,the

angle 8 1 refers to the body fixed system.

This deformed radius parameter

is now inserted into the Woods-Saxon potential shape and the p otential is
expanded in spherical harmonics,

v =

II.lO

,>..

where D

j.JO

is a rotation from the space fixed to the body fixed

coordinates ,

Y,

AO

(8 ')

= j..lL D.\j.JO (8 l.) Y,Aj..l (e,q,)

For the vibrati onal model the optical potential radius is expanded
in a full set of spherical harmonics,

II . l i

R = R (l +La,

Aj..l

Aj..l

Y,]J(e,q,))

and a procedur e similar to the rotational model is followed to obtain
the tensor p otential expansion .

C.

IDENTICAL PARTICLES AND SPECTROSCOPIC FACTORS

There are counting and timing probl ems whic h arise when treating
systems of many particles in real time .

The single particle stationary

state Schroedinger equation when used in a mul tiparticle , real time
evolution p r ocess must be corrected for two phenomena .

Some particles

in the system c an interact quit e strongly within the t i me limits gover n ing a particul ar process, while others may remain inert and noninteracting .

For example , in discussing single particle gamma ray transitions

which occur in outer shells, as long as the time for the core to interact with the extra particles i s l ong compared with transition lifetime,
the core can b e considered to be inert and will enter into the process
in only the most simple ways .

Second , charge can be exchanged in the

strong interactions between nucleons and hence all part i cles with i n a
shel l, regardless of charge, must be included in computing spect r oscopic
f actors .
The statistics and confi gurations of the mass 1 3 states of interest
will n ow be described so that some i ns i ght can be gained in understandin g
the results of secti on IV.

The

4He core consisting of two protons and

two neutrons in the ls - shell is very stable; its first excited state
does not occur until nearly 20 MeV .

Hence, in all that follows its only

contribution is to mass and ch a r ge .

In the

12

C ground state the next

10

eight particles are all i n

~= l

states and are considered to form a semi -

magic shell since they fill up the total angular momentum states
j = 3/2 obtained by coupling spin and orbital angular momentum in
parallel.

In const ructing the mass 13 ground state the extra nucleon
~= 1

level which has j =l/2, antiparallel spin and

orbital angular momentum.

In th is case however the excitation of the

is put into the next

core mixes up the distinction between para llel and antiparallel spin
and angular momentum, with the consequen ce that all p - shell nucleons
are treat ed the same,giving a total spectroscopic factor of 9.
Similar re ason in g can be appl ied to the other bound states in the
compound nuc leus.

For all particle unbound channels the wave functions

have been normalized to unit incoming flux.

ll

III.
A.

GAMMA RAY TRANSITIONS

TRANSITION PROBABILITIES FOR MULTIPLE CHANNELS

The procedure which we outline here is presented in more detail by
Johnson

15

16
and is a modification of the Rose and Brink
formulas for the

angular distributions of gamma rays.

The changes are a result of using

more than one total spin state in the incident channel.

The differential cross section for a photon of wave number k

in

e is given by p(k
) the probability of emission in the

the direction
direction

y '

e divided by the incident particle velocity.

These probabil-

ities in turn can be written as being proportional to the absolute squares
of amplitudes given by

III.l

where q is the polarization of the radiation and T~> is the interaction
multipole operator of type L,n and V~q(R) is a rotation operator wher e
the rotation R takes the z-axis to

These amplitudes are simply summed over the possible total spin
angular momentum states in the initial channel and the absolute value is
squared to obtain the probability .

By using the Wigner-Echart theorem

and the reduction formula for a product of rotation matrices plus the
usual Clebsch-Gordan and Racah algebra, we arrive at the angular
distribution for photons of polarization q from states J
to a state J

and J

' leading

12

III.2

where w(M ) is the incoming probability distributions over total angular
momentum projections.

The appendix contains the formulas used for the

computations in a much more reduced form.

B.

The r

A.

FREE PARTICLE MATRIX ELEMENTS

matrix element between free particle initial and final

states can be evaluated using standard techniques from complex
functional analysis~

F or the free particle wave functions we use an

inte gral representati on of an outgoing Coulomb wave.

(With simple

changes i n parameters, the matrix elements of zero charge and bound
state wave functions can also be obtained.)

The o ut going Coulomb wave

is writt en in a way which illustrates its asymptotic form,

III. 3

where
oL = arg r(L+l+in)

13

= kr

and L, k, n are the usual angular momentum, wave number, and dimensionless
Coulomb potential strength, respectively.

To evaluate the truncated

matrix element (that is,the integral from a finite radius to infinity),
the r-dependent terms are grouped together after a direct substitution.

III.4

• e

Joo

-(i(k.-kf)+u+t)r

I~ duuLf+inf(l+iu/2kf)Lf-inf

dt
r(L.-in.+l)

r(Lf+inf+l)

After performing the integral over r, a change of variables
(t = ipifsx, u = ipifs(l-x)) and a contour integral whose validity is
justified by Cauchy's integral theorem and analytic continuation, we
get

L!

III.5

L=O
where

(L-L)f 1 L+l

14
L = A + Li + Lf + 2

= Lf + Li + 2 + i ( nf

n.)

This last double integral can now be approximated by an asymptotic
series in confluent hypergeometric functions after first expanding the
two terms in the numerator.

III.6

where

= a- L

r(L.+in.+l)

R-=O R-!r(L.-R-+in.+l)
J·-N
- - No

r(L.-in.+R-+1)
}{

R-!r(L.-in.+l)

U(a,b,z) is defined in Abramowitz and Stegun

r(Lf-inf+l)
}{

j!r(Lf-j -inf+l)

17

(13.1.3).

The full (R=O) matrix element is obtained in a more straightforward
manner by first expanding the two numerator terms as b e f ore .

The

integrals then reduce to nothing more than sums and products of rfunctions.

III. 7

This final series i s

15

IV .

APPLICATION TO GAMMA TRANSITIONS IN MASS 13

Figure 2 shows a nuclear energy level isobar diagram for mass 13 .
We will be concerned with modeling the structure of these low-lying
states.
Mikoshiba, et al .

19

, find that an axially symmet ric, rotat ional

nucleus with large oblate deformation successfully reproduces the
experimental phase shifts, cross sections, and polarizations of
elastic scattering of nucleons on
cannot .

12

C whereas the vibrational model

The doctoral dissertation of Johnson

include nucleon capture on

12

15

extends the model to

C.

Neither effort is successful at low energies as a result of
problems in combining in a consistent fashion bound and unbound
channels within the same total wave function.

The rotational model

will be used to calculate wave functions f or these low energy states
and the resulting El transition rates b etween them in an attempt to
illuminate some of these inconsistencies.
The El strengths for the transition from the first excited J"~+
state to the J 1f-l-~
ground
state- in each nuclei will be predlcL.e

ratio compared to the experiment al value.

We will find that the

computed ratio agrees quite wel l with the experimental ratio; hence,
for this transition we find no violation of the charge symmetry of
nuclear forces.
on

12

In addition the bremsstrahlung radiation from protons

c will be modeled as occurring through one resonance - the J"=3/ 2-

state at 3 .509 MeV- and the incomin g plane wave modeled as the higher

16

JTI~~-state at 8.92 MeV- to the Jn=~+ first excited state at 2.366 MeV.
From the calculations of Cohen and Kurath

18

for single nucleon

transfer reactions in the lp-shell, we obtain spectroscopi c factors for
the two most important low-lying contributions to the mass 13 ground
state.

Igs> = 8(0+ ) 112C(g.s.) +nucl eon> 8(2+ ) 112C(2+ ) + nucleon>

IV.l

where 8(0 ) and 8(2 ) are the fractional parentage coefficients.

The

spectroscopic factors are given by the square of the fractional
parentage coefficients times the number of extra core nucleons as
explained in Section II B.

Cohen and Kurath determine the spectra-

scopic factors,

In coupling the
form the

13

c and

12

c(g.s.) and

12

c(2+) with single particles to

13
N ground states we proceed as follows.

The strength

of the off-diagonal mixing potential is calculated using the rotational
coupled-channel model.

The diagonal nuclear optical potentials in each

chann e l are forc e d to be equal and this strength and that of the spinorbit potential are varied to put each ground state at th e proper
eigenenergy with the correct spectroscopic factors.

These wave

functions are then used i n the computation of the El matrix elements in
conjunction with the first excited state wave functions.

Variations of

the diagonal and spi n-orbit p otential strengths for the fir st excited
state result

in the reproduction of the

12

c(p,y)

13

N capture cross

17

section (Figure 4) by estimating its value at the resonance energy and
at proton energy . 700 Me V ( center of mas s ).

The resulting norrnal i za-

tion factor gives the ground state (0 and 2 states only) spectroscopic

1T

factor s1nce the J =1/2

state is normalized to unit incoming flux.

From this computation we also ob.t ain estimates of the
S-wave phase shifts

20

12

c (p ,p ) 12c

whi ch are excellent over th e enti re ene r gy r egion

of inte rest (Figure 3)
Potential strengths identical to tho se used for the mixing and

13N, are then applied in computing the 13c

spin- orbit potentials in

ground and first excited states .

Again , the di agonal potential is

varied to put the wave functions at the right eigenenergies.

The El

transit ion width i s computed and multiplied by the ground state
spectroscopic factor estimated in the

From the

13

capture cross s ection in
width.

13N computation .

N a simple computation yields it s gamma

The peak is modeled as a Breit-Wigner form an d the gamma

width is computed assuming that the proton width i s approximately
equal to the full width.
In performing the brems strahl ung calculation a similar procedure
is followed .

1T

The J =1 /2

excited s tate potential value s computed in

the previous calculati o n are used to generate wh at will b e the final
state wave fun ctions in this problem.

Using the mixing potential

value s predicted by the rotational model we then const ruct the JTI =3/ 2-

TI

and J =1/2

- e xcited states.

7T

The J =1/2

state is u sed only to simulat e

18

the PJ. piece of the incoming plane wave.

'1T

The J = 3/2

potential values

are then varied to arrive at the best fi t to the 6 = 0° bremsstrahlung
cross section , using the El bremsstrahlun g differential cross section
formul a from Appendix B.

A factor for the final state phase space

den si ty and a simple integr al of the Breit- Wigner resonanc e shape for
the J'!T =l/2+ final state were also included.

The 6 = 90

was also determined , and is the dotted line of Figure 6 .
seen from the figure the fi t
data badly .

cross section
As can be

is qualitatively c orrect but missed some

An examination of the experimental photon l ine shapes

r eveals the reason s for the problem.

The backgroundfluctuations at l ow

energies are quite large , typi cally ten to fifteen percent of the
resonance peak values , and secondly, the line shapes deviate qui t e
severely from a Breit-Wigner form.

To correct this problem we have

computed the line shapes over the f i nal state resonance region for
selected valu es o f the incident proton energy.

The areas of the

resulting peaks are numeric all y computed afte r lowe r limits to the
peaks are inserted.

Figure 7 shows a set of these peaks for a range

of incident proton energi es .

The resulting final cross sections can

be seen as the solid line i n Fi gure 6 for 6 = 90° .

The lower limi ts

to the peaks were determined u sing two rul es of thumb .

First, the

line shapes should look closel y like a Breit- Wigner resonance, hence
the asymmetry of the peaks reduces the area.

Second, the background

noise results in making the placement of lower limits uncertain.

The

experimental line shapes had lower limit s less than three half widths

19

wide.

Even assuming a pure Breit-Wigner form for the peak, cutting

off the base at three half width s yields a large reduction in area.

6 shows quite vividly the large changes to the

The sol i d line of Figure

90° differential cross section.
Again the

13
13
N potenti al strengths are applied to the
c mirror

transition states and the equivalent gamma widths are computed .
iT

Tabl e 1 contains a l isting of the se widths for the J = l/2
iT

transition to the J = 1/2
iT

to J =1/2

iT

gro und state and the J =3 /2

state

state transiti on

state in both nucl ei as well as a compari son with the

experimental value s .

Table 2 contains a listing of the potential

values for all states corresponding to the widths computed in Table 1.
It should b e noted that the infrared divergence i n the
bremsstrahlung cross section seen at low energies as the dashed curve
in Fi gure 6 is a result of the breakdown of perturbation theory for
small photon energies.

The perturbation term i s a l inear appr oximation

to the matrix element of a complex valued exponential function of the
perturbation potential between the initial and final states.

Even

thoug h this linear i zed term goes to infinity for small photon energies
as do all higher terms in the perturbation expans ion, the exact term
remain s finite; hi g h e r order terms don't help the expansion converge.
Summing the peaks as done here to corre ct the bremsstrahlung cross
section also yields the added bonus of the d i sappearance of this
divergence.

As can be seen by examining Figure 7, as on e goes to

smaller photon energi es the Breit-Wigner part of the peak grows smaller

20

even though the total area under the peaks goes to infinity.

21

V.

DISCUSSION

A cursory examination of Table 2 reveals two significant features
of the potential strength values.

The first conclusion is that the spin-

orbit strength varies quite widely across states.

In performing the

calculations the mixing potentials were fixed by the rotational model
and we have truncated the full channel expansion to only two excited
states of

12

C.

Hence we shouldn ' t really expect any great consistency

in the spin- orbit strength across states.

The second major feature is

t he differences between the diagonal potentials in even and odd angular
momentum states.

The S and D shell potentials are approximately

54 MeV

strong, whereas the P- waves are bound somewhat more weakly , approximately
42 MeV .

One can only speculate as to the origin of this effect, but

again the truncation of exc i ted core states may play an important role .
In the standard derivation of the existence of the spin-orbit force
a Dirac equation is derived from principles of relati vist ic i nvariance.
The resulting spinor wave function is approximated by a scalar wave
function with the Dirac equation being transformed from a c oupled first
order differential equation to a scalar second order Schroedinger equation
with a spin-orbit potent ial and higher order terms.

That is we ' ve

reduced a c oupled wave function to a scalar wave function .

For this

r eason it is probably correct not to distort the spin- orbit force; in
fact the correct approach to deriving a coupled-channel model should
s t art with a Di rac equation, the inclusion o f core wave functions, and

22

a model of the excitation process.

Such a procedure is beyond the

scope of this paper.
As mentioned earlier, the failure of current models to adequately
model the low energy states is most probably explained by the converse
success of the niodels in consistently reproducing higher energy states.
Conservation of energy and flux fix the amplitudes of all unbound
channels whereas bound states can take on any normalization.

Thus all

that the standard models do at higher energies is determine the phase
rel-ationships between wave functions;

at lower energies when bound

states exist we must also mix in the proper amplitudes.
The resulting effects on matrix elements are unknown;

it may be

fruitful to pursue just what happens at these important thresholds.
Further insight can also be obtained by examining the role of complex
valued potentials.

It is well known that the use of an imaginary

valued potential results in the loss of flux from open channels because
the Hamiltonian becomes non - Hermetian .

Further investigation into the

use of complex valued wave funct i ons and potentials and their proper
interpretations would be of invaluable help in unraveling the mysteries
of the nucleus .

23

APPENDIX

A.

Numerical Solution of Coupled Second Order Differential EQuation
System
1.

Solution by iteration of coupled eQuations

2.

Boundary conditions and solution search routines

3.

Computation of external matching functions

B.

Gamma Ray Transition Differential Cross Section Formulas

C.

Nuclear and Coulomb Potential Shapes

D.

Computer Program Info rmation

24

A.

NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF SECOND ORDER COUPLED
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION SYSTEM

l.

SOLUTION BY ITERATION OF COUPLED EQUATIONS

The system of second order coupled differential equations is given
by

(l)
where A is a matrix specified by the particular model used.

Diagonal

elements of A are the energy eigenvalues and central potentials of
each channel.

The off-diagonal elements are the mixing potentials.

In

the standard 3-point integration formula,

= 2y-+n

(2)

-+

-+

where his the step size and yn = y(r=nh).

We substitute (l) in for the

second derivatives obtaining

= (12X-l - 10) X +y

(3)

where Xn = I -+

X y

n n

-+

n-1 n-1

h2

12

An.

At the origin our starting conditions are

= -+0, and at step l we arbitrarily set x1y-+1 = -+a and define
-+

-+

Xn+ly n+l - Zn+l a ·

-+

After dropping a from all equations, we are left

with a set of matrix equations to iterate,

( 4)

with Z

= O, z1

I.

25

We use equation set

(4) when we search for the eigenvalue or

resonance and equation set (3) when our desired solution is found.

The

usual error analysis and behavior is carried over from the onedimensional case and can be found in Melkanoff, et al.

2.

22

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS AND SOLUTION SEARCH ROUTINES

For the case when all channels are bound, we must have only
exponentially decreasing wave functions at infinity, the Whittacker
function, and these are easily matched to the iterated solution in each
channel.

In all other cases we must have outgoing waves in at least

one channel, so our outgoing wave function must behave asymptotically
like

( 5)

(GR.

+iF£ ))

where s is any channel, i is the incident channel, k. the wave number in

the incident channel, F£ and G£ are the regular and irregular Coulomb
functions, respectively, but can be replaced by sphErical Bessel
functions in the case of no charge interactions; or if a channel is
bound, G£

+ iF£

is replaced by a Whittaker function.
Cs contains
amplitude and phase shift information about the outgoing state. For

the entrance channel C.

= eio sin o where cS is the commonly defined phase

shift, and o£

is the Coulomb phase shift in channel s.
In the case where at least one channel is open, we integrate our

system of equations starting from the origin so as not to introduce
numerical errors from the irregular solution.

The iterated wave

26
funct i ons are matched to standard functions at two points for large
values of r.

z a

That is,

(47r)~

;:::

k .

e io ~· F £. (a) + c .

(6)

ei 0 i(G.~~, . (a) + ~"F R, (a))

cs ei 0 S(G.~~, (cd + ~"F R, (a))

for a ;:::l,2 , the functions all evaluated at the matching points .

We can
-+

-+

write thi s in matrix notat i on and easily solve f or the vectors a and c ;:::

( . .. ,c,
... ).

zl

-+

n·~ag [ e ios (Gl£ +"Fl
~ £ ) ]

(7)

{47r) 2-+

D"~ag [ e ioS (G2£ +"F2
~ R, ) ]

k.

(4TI)>2
k.

;,

z2

;:::

io. Fl
£.

io. F2

£.

For the cas e where all channels are bound, we must integrate from
the ends toward the middle of the i nterval because of the numerical erro rs
i ntroduced by the irregular solutions to the differential equations.

From

the origin out we have the solution matrices ZK ' ' ZK+l and from infinity in
-+

we have ZK' ZK+l '

For arbitrary start i n g vectors a from the origin and

-+

b from i nfinity we have the solutions at the points K
-r , ;:::
YK

(8)

-1

'-r
ZKa

-r,
;:::
YK+l

-1

-+

~+1 ZK+l a

and
-+

YK

;:::

-1

-+

ZKb

-+

YK+l

;:::

-1

-+

~+1 ZK+lb

and K+l,

27
We have a proper solution to the differential equations when the
values at each po i nt are the same.

This impl i es that we solve the

matr ix equation

(9)

!]

Z'

-Z

-+

-+

When the determinant of A is zero, then we have found a good
solution to the system of equations .
-+

b, simply set a

3.

-+

To find the starting vectors a and

= 1 and solve the resulting system of equations.
COMPUTATION OF EXTERNAL MATCHING FUNCTIONS

The asymptotic values of the bound channel wave functions for both
charged and uncharged states were computed using a 20- point Laguerre
quadrature formul a on the integral representation of the Whittaker
funct i on

(10)

w( n , t + ~ . 2p)

= exp( - p- n tn 2p)
r(l+£+ n)

The nodes and weights are given by Stroud and Secrest

23

The error in

the quadrature can be limited to the boundedness of the fortieth
derivative of the integrand times the error coefficient of 0 . 7254E- ll .
Representative values of these functions have been checked against
tables in Abramowitz and Stegun

17

The spherical Bessel functions are computed from formulas 10.1 . 2
in Abramowitz and Stegun

17

The irregular solution can be recursed by

28
a three-point formula up in £-values,starting being facilitated by the
analytic forms for £=0 and l.

The regular solutions are started

arbitrarily at high £-values and recurred downward.

The Wronskian is

then computed and used to correct the regular solutions.

This routine

has also been checked against tables.
The Coulomb functions are computed by a program developed at the
University of Minnesota.

Representative values have been checked against

tabl es in Abramowitz and Stegun

17

and Arnold Tubis, Tables of Nonre la-

tivistic Coulomb Wave Funct i ons , Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (1958).
The irregular Couiomb wave and its derivative for £-values are obtained by
re curs ion.

The regular solutions are obtained by a downward recursion

and these solutions are corrected by a Wronskian calculation.

29

GM~

B.

RAY TRANSITION DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTION FORMULA

The derivation of the formulas used in generating the cross sections
of interest can be found in Johnson7

For the El-bremsstrahlung differential cross section, we obtain

dcr(e)
(ll)

dS"l

+ {4 Re(<~-~~ T~ll ~+>*<3/2-ll T~~~ ~+>
-21< 3/2-

II T~ II ~+ >1 2 } p 2 (cos 8)]

The El-capture involves an integration over angle and is given by

2k
= ___L { 2j< ~+II Te II ~- >1 }
cr
py
3hv.

(12)

where k

is wave number of the outgoing photon, v. is the velocity of

the incoming proton in the center-of-mass, and

(13)

where J

, J

are the total spin of the core plus nucleon system for the

initial and final states, I
W(J

is the spin of the core, and the

1 Injl; J j ) are Racah coefficients.
1 2

The reduced matrix element

30

£ -£ +1

=i 1

(14)

(-1) 1

-~ (2. +1) 2

_J;;..o2_ _

13

. ( j 1 j 2~-~ l1o) eeffky OV(n)
Jl

n£ljl

and

OV(n)

roo

J2
u £ .
n 2J2 2
r dr
eEl(r)

and

where e is the proton charge and (Zp,Ap), (ZT, ~) are the charge and
mass number of the projectile and target, respectively, the
(j j ~-~110) are Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, eE (r) is the electric
1 2
dipole operator which reduce s to r in the long wavelength approximation,

wJ 1 .

n~lJl

, u

J2
n •
are the nth channel initial and final state wave
n""2J2

functions of a nucleon with orbital angular momentum £ 2 ; and total
angular momentum j., about the core state with total spin I

to yield a

total angular momentum J ..

The bremsstrahlung differential cross section is multiplied by a
density of states to correct for all the continuum final states.

This

factor consists of two parts: the usual density of momentum in phase
space and the area under the final state resonance assuming a BreitWigner shape.
The Clebsch-Gordan and Racah coefficients were evaluated using
Rotenberg, Bivens, Metropolis, and Wooten, The 3-J and 6-J Symbols, The
Technology Press, MIT

(1959).

31

C•

NUCLEAR AND COULOMB P OTENTI AL SHAPES

The u sual diagonal central p otential is a Woods - Saxon d i ffuse edge
well

form

(15)

where a is a

= [ l + e xp( [ R- R0 ] /a) ]-l

par&~eter

which measures the d iffuseness of the edg e and

is the nuclear r adi us usually given by R

.r Al/3 .

The off-diagonal and sp i n - orb i t potential are g i ven in ter ms of the
deri vative o f t he central pot ential

(16)

df
-=dr

The spi n - o r bit force picks u p an addit i onal 1/r dependence as presented
in Table l.

The Coulomb potential i s the us u a l uniform sphere

val ue inside the nuclear r adiu s and the standar d 1/r dependence outs i de ,

(17)

V (r)

={

ZZ ' e 2
(3 2R
R2

r 5 R

ZZ' e 2

r > R

32

D.

COMPUTER PROGRAM INFORMATION

The programs were run on the CDC 7600 high-speed digital computer
at Berkeley through the remote terminal in the Downs-Lauritsen physics
building.

The programs can be contai ned in two boxes of cards, but

testing and production were done using the program storage system at
Berkeley.

The high speeds and inexpensive costs in running the programs

make any timing estimates superfluous.
The linear equation solver package LINIT is a Berkeley computing
center program.
All numerical and physical constants values are from F . AjzenbergSelone and C. L . Busch, Nuclear "Wallet Cards", University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1971).

33

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35

TABLE 1
WIDTHS

1/2+ + 1/2

3/2 -

-+

1/2+

THEORY

EXPERIMENTAL

(13c)

.617 eV

.44 ± .05 eV

( 13N)

.701 eV

.64 ± .07 eV

Ratio of Strengths

2.52

3.2 ± 0.7

<13c)

2.5 meV

6.6 meV

r y (13N)

4.2 meV

4.4 meV

.240

.095

Ratio of Strengths

It should b e noted that the 3/2- to 1/2+ transit i on widths
are in mill ielectron volts ( l 0- 3 ev) .

In thi s transition strong

inte rference between channels yields a lar ge error in the
theoretica l width values.

36

TABLE 2

STATE

MIXING

POI'ENTIAI.S
SPJN-QRBIT

CENTRAL (MeV)

SPECI'ROSCOPIC
FACI'ORS

13
C(g.s.)

2.22

.93

40.207

(.8252, 1.6091)

13N(g.s.)

2.22

.93

40.257

( • 88121 l. 5531)

13c(l/2+)

2.73

.31

53.304

(.905, .095)

13
N(l/2+)

2.73

.31

54.263

( .922, .078)

13c(3/2-)

1.6

0.

42.557

(.142, .858)

13N(3/2-)

1.6

0.

43.355

( .136, . 864)

The full mixing potential is a prcxluct of the factor given above
times (hc/2mc 2 ) , the Ccmpton wave length of the reduced mass, t.irres the
derivative of the central Wcxrls-Saxon fonn.

Similarly the spin-orbit

potential is a product of the above factor times (h 2c 2 /2rrc 2 ) times
(-;·L)/r t.irres the derivative of the Wcxrls-Saxon fonn.
radius is 22.35 :Em.
JTKXlel with s=-l/2 .

The matching

The mixing strength corresponds to a rotational

37

Figure 1.

Ratio of corresponding El strengths in light mirror nuclei.

The data have been obtainErl from the data canpilations of
refs. 2-4.

'Ihe indicatErl ratio for A = 15 is an upper limit.

::> 4

(l)

0::

ll..

12

A= IS
(EI -lo- 6 w.u.)

RATIO

A=l3
(EI-0.1 W.u.)

RATIO OF EI-STRENGTHS

0.1

A= 17-43
(EI-I0-3 -lo-6 w.u.)

I~EXPECTEu

EI-STRENGTHS IN MIRROR NUCLEI

OJ

39

Figure 2.

Isobar energy level diagram for A = 13.

Note that no correction is made for the Coulomb energy difference
between

13

c and 13N.

4o

I SOBAR 01 AGRAM

2+

A = 13

4.439

6.864 5/2+v /

12C+n

3.547 5/2+
/1 3.509 3/~
//' 2.366 I /2+

o+
(4.947)

//

3.854 5/2+ // / / /
3.684 3/2- /
"'
3.086 1/2+

(1.944)

12C+p
(2221)

1/2-

·~

41

Figure 3.

Comparison of the experlinental S!:! phase shifts with the

rrodel calculations for the
taken from ref. 20.

12

C(p,p)

12
C reaction.

The data are

42

eo
ILL

(f)

(f)

<(

Cl..

300

500

700

PROTON ENERGY (keV)

900

43

Figure 4 .

Capture cross section near the resonance peak.

Dots are data of Rolfs

10

The solid curve is the theoretical fit.

44

100

V)

,_

..c

:t.

450 500
Ec.m. (keV)

550

600

650

45

Figure 5.

S-factor given by S = oE exp (21Tn) •

Solid curve is theoretical fit. The circles are the data of
Rolfs

10

The plus signs are the data of Vogl

curve is a single channel fit with no mixing.

The dashed

46

12C (p, y) 13N

• Rolfs data
+ Vogl data
100

(f)

c:
.J:)

10

Q)

--..::s:;

(/)

100

200

300

400

500
EcM (keV)

600

700

47

Figure 6.

Differential cross sections for bremsstrahlung at 0° and 90°.

The data are from Rolfs

10

The dashed curve is the preliminary fit

using a Brei t-Wigner form to represent line shape.

'Ihe solid

curves are the result of integration over the calculated line
shape.

48

......--.

Q)

-~

.,.

. . ----·--

L[)

><..9
0:::

......--.

*o...

>--.

--u

0...

NOI..LJ3S SSOtiJ l\11..LN3tl3.=1.=110

0:::
Q_

Figure 7.

The garrma ray line shapes for bremsstrahlung at 90°.

The

dashed lines are the lower limits for integration over the peaks.

50

_.1~

~------==================~//
II

a.

VI

I~

--==============-___/

l.{)

,-...

0 >

>-

tD

<..?

0::

oZ

ow

II

a.

0<(

<(

<..?

II

(_)

a.

*a..

l.{)

0)

a..

II

(_)

a.

l.{)

( /\a)i /Ja~sju.mq-rl) NO I.L)3S SSOCJ) l\11.LN3CJ3.::1.::110