Low-lying continuum states of drip-line oxygen isotopes

Abstract

Low-lying continuum states of exotic oxygen isotopes with A = 23-26 are studied, by introducing the continuum-coupled shell model (CCSM) characterized by an infinite wall placed very far away and by an interaction for continuum coupling constructed in a close relation to the realistic shell-model Hamiltonian. Neutron-emission spectra from exotic oxygen isotopes are calculated by the doorway-state approach in heavy-ion multi-nucleon transfer reactions. The results agree with experiment remarkably well, providing evidence that the continuum effects are stronger than ∼1 MeV, consistent with the shell evolution in exotic nuclei. The peaks in the neutron spectra are understood as doorway-state resonances. The results by this CCSM doorway-state approach are compared with calculations on neutron-scattering resonance peaks made within the CCSM phase-shift approach and also with those obtained in the Gamow shell model, by taking the same Hamiltonian.