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Phys. Rev. C 67, 054309 (2003) [7 pages]

Spin- and parity-dependent nuclear level densities and the exponential convergence method

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Mihai Horoi1, Joshua Kaiser1,2, and Vladimir Zelevinsky2,3
1Physics Department, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
3National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

Received 26 December 2001; revised 28 January 2003; published 21 May 2003

The knowledge of the nuclear spin- and parity-dependent level densities ρ(E,J,π) is important for understanding statistical properties of nuclei and reaction rates. We show that the earlier suggested method of exponential extrapolation, which allows one to find the yrast energy with high accuracy even for very large shell model Hamiltonian matrices, can be combined with the formalism of statistical spectroscopy in order to obtain the reliable level density.


©2003 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.67.054309
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.67.054309
PACS: 21.10.Ma, 21.10.Dr, 21.10.Hw, 21.60.Cs

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