Author(s)

Sameena Murtaza ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Physics, Lady Brabourne College, Park Circus, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Corresponding Author

Sameena Murtaza

ABSTRACT

Self consistently Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov calculations have been performed with Skyrme functional SLY6 parameter set to study the ground-state properties of stable and unstable isotopes of Ytterbium (Yb), Lutetium (Lu), Hafnium (Hf), Tantalum (Ta) and Tungsten (W) nuclei. Binding energy, Quadrupole deformation and Hexadecapole deformation of nuclei having Z=70-74, neutron number (N =100 - 112) and neutron rich nuclei (N=124 - 127) have been analysed with the help of their potential energy surface (PES). Ground-state binding energy and deformation have been compared with the experimental data and data available from other works in literature.

KEYWORDS

Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov, Skyrme interaction, r-Process, Pairing Correlation

CITE THIS PAPER

Sameena Murtaza, Ground state properties of rare earth nuclei of the astrophysical r-process. Journal of Physics Through Computation (2023) Vol. 5: 1-8. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jptc.2023.050101.

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