{
  "id": "1808.00526",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2018-08-01T19:31:42.000Z",
  "updated": "2018-08-01T19:31:42.000Z",
  "title": "Empirical signatures of shape phase transitions in nuclei with odd nucleon numbers",
  "authors": [
    "D. Bucurescu",
    "N. V. Zamfir"
  ],
  "comment": "This manuscript has been published in Phys. Rev. C 98, 024301 (2018). This is the preprint version",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. C 98, 024301 (2018)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevC.98.024301",
  "categories": [
    "nucl-th",
    "nucl-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "Nuclear level density at low excitation energies is proposed as an indicator of the first order phase transitions in nuclei. The new signature, a maximum value of the level density at the critical point, appears to be sensitive to the detailed way the phase transition takes place in different nuclear regions: it is consistent with phase coexistence in the N=90 region, and with a rapid crossing of the two phases, without their coexistence/mixing at the critical point in the N=60 region, respectively. Candidates for critical point nuclei are proposed for odd-mass and odd-odd nuclei, using correlations between relative excitation energies, and their ratios, for structures (bands) based on unique-parity orbitals.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2018-08-01T19:31:42.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "shape phase transitions",
      "odd nucleon numbers",
      "empirical signatures",
      "critical point",
      "first order phase transitions"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. C"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}