The tensor-kinetic field in nuclear collisionsStevenson, P. D., Fracasso, S. and Suckling, E. B. (2012) The tensor-kinetic field in nuclear collisions. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 381. 012105. ISSN 1742-6588 Full text not archived in this repository. It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. To link to this item DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/381/1/012105 Abstract/SummaryThe role of the tensor terms in the Skyrme interaction is studied for their effect in dynamic calculations where non-zero contributions to the mean-field may arise, even when the starting nucleus, or nuclei are even-even and have no active time-odd potentials in the ground state. We study collisions in the test-bed 16O-16O system, and give a qualitative analysis of the behaviour of the time-odd tensor-kinetic density, which only appears in the mean field Hamiltonian in the presence of the tensor force. We find an axial excitation of this density is induced by a collision.
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