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原子核质量不确定性对β衰变半衰期和中子俘获率的影响

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.75.20251195

Influence of nuclear mass uncertainty on β-decay half-life and neutron-capture rate

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.75.20251195
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  • 原子核质量、β衰变半衰期以及中子俘获率是快中子俘获过程(r-过程)模拟中必不可少的核物理输入量, 且核质量还影响着β衰变半衰期和中子俘获率的预测. 然而, r-过程模拟涉及的许多丰中子核的质量仍然依靠理论模型的预言, 并且不同模型预言结果存在显著差异. 本文选取了10种原子核质量模型, 其中涵盖了宏观、微观、宏观-微观模型以及结合机器学习方法的质量模型, 系统研究核质量不确定性对β衰变半衰期和中子俘获率的影响. 基于不同的质量表, 分别采用β衰变半衰期半经验公式和TALYS程序, 计算了相应原子核的β衰变半衰期和中子俘获率, 为r-过程模拟提供了较为自洽的核物理输入. 研究发现, 丰中子区域不同质量模型的质量预言不确定性可达10 MeV. 质量不确定性对丰中子核素β衰变半衰期的预言产生的差异基本在0.6个数量级以内. 而对中子俘获率的影响更为显著, 当天体环境温度为T = 109 K时, 近中子滴线核区的中子俘获率平均不确定性为2—3个数量级, 部分核素的最大与最小预言值差距甚至超过10个数量级. 向丰中子区域外推时, 原子核的中子俘获反应能Q_(\rm n,\gamma)直接影响着中子俘获率的变化趋势, 并且在丰中子区域中子俘获率对Q_(\rm n,\gamma)的不确定性非常敏感. 此外, 天体环境温度升高可降低质量不确定性对远离稳定线的原子核中子俘获率预言的影响. 本研究基于10种不同质量模型计算了β衰变半衰期和中子俘获率, 为r-过程模拟提供了更多自洽的核物理输入. 本文数据集可在https://www.doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.j00213.00222中访问获取.

     

    Nuclear mass, β-decay half-life, and neutron-capture rate are the most important nuclear physics inputs for rapid-neutron capture process (r-process) simulations. Nuclear mass can directly influence the abundance ratio of neighboring isotopes during the (n, γ)-(γ, n) equilibrium stage. On the other hand, nuclear mass influences the predictions of β-decay half-life and the neutron-capture rate, thus indirectly influences the r-process simulation. Currently, only about 3000 nuclear masses have been precisely measured in experiment, and many of the nuclear masses involved in r-process simulations can only be predicted by theory models. However, when extrapolating nuclear masses towards the neutron drip line, there appear large discrepancies between the predictions of different mass models, which inevitably affects the predictions of β-decay half-lives and neutron-capture rates. In this work, ten mass models are employed to systematically study the influence of nuclear mass uncertainties on β-decay half-lives and neutron-capture rates. The β-decay half-lives and neutron-capture rates are calculated by the β-decay half-life semi-empirical formula and TALYS code, respectively. It is found that the uncertainties in nuclear mass predictions between different mass models can reach 10 MeV in the neutron-rich region; the differences between the maximum and minimum masses predicted by these models even exceed 30 MeV for some nuclei. For the predictions of β-decay energy Q_\textβ and (\rm n,\textγ) reaction energy Q_(\rm n,\textγ), there are large deviations mainly around the neutron magic numbers and close to the neutron drip line, with uncertainties of 2 MeV and 1 MeV, respectively. The influence of mass uncertainties on the β-decay half-lives is about 0.6 orders of magnitude for neutron-rich nuclei. The uncertainties in neutron-capture rates increase significantly when extrapolating towards the neutron-rich region. At a temperature of T=10^9 K, the average uncertainties of the neutron-capture rates range over 2–3 orders of magnitude for nuclei near the neutron drip line. Taking N=50,\;82,\;126,\;184 isotones for example, it is found that the differences between the maximum and minimum neutron-capture rates obtained from various nuclear mass models even exceed 10 orders of magnitude for some nuclei. The Q_(\rm n,\textγ) directly affects the trend of the neutron-capture rates, and the neutron-capture rates are very sensitive to the uncertainties of Q_(\rm n,\textγ) for neutron-rich nuclei. In addition, the effect of temperature on neutron-capture rate is also investigated, and it is found that the increase in temperature can reduce the influence of mass uncertainty on the prediction of neutron-capture rate for neutron-rich nuclei. In this work, the β-decay half-lives and neutron-capture rates are calculated based on ten different mass models. Therefore, more self-consistent nuclear physics inputs will be provided for simulating the r-process. The datasets presented in this paper are openly available at https://www.doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.j00213.00222.

     

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