A new approach to investigate dineutron correlation and its application to 10Be

Abstract

We propose a new framework by means of the dineutron condensate (DC) wave function to describe the dineutron correlation, which is characterized by the spatially strong correlation of a spin-zero neutron-neutron pair, in neutron-rich nuclei with an active deformed core surrounded by valence neutrons. Using the DC wave function for a 2α+2n system, which corresponds to a toy model for the 10Be system, we investigate the neutron-neutron correlation around the 2α core and discuss the mechanism of the dineutron formation at the surface of finite nuclei. To investigate dineutron correlations in realistic nuclear systems, we superpose the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics (AMD) wave functions and the DC wave functions. Applying the AMD+DC method to 10Be, we show effects of the DC wave functions in the ground and excited 0+ states of 10Be and discuss the dineutron correlation in them.