Calculations of Anomalous Seniority Breaking in the Shell for the = 50 Isotones
Q. Yuan (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Key Laboratory of High Precision Nuclear Spectroscopy, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, Southern Center for Nuclear-Science Theory (SCNT), Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Huizhou, China); B.S. Hu (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA, National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA)
We performed ab initio valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group (VS-IMSRG) calculations based on chiral two-nucleon and three-nucleon interactions to investigate the anomalous seniority breaking in the neutron number isotones: $^{92}$Mo, $^{94}$Ru, $^{96}$Pd, and $^{98}$Cd. Our calculations well reproduced the measured low-lying spectra and electromagnetic E2 transitions in these nuclei, supporting partial seniority conservation in the first shell. Recent experiments have revealed that, compared to the symmetric patterns predicted under the conserved seniority symmetry, the E2 transition strength in $^{94}$Ru is significantly enhanced and that in $^{96}$Pd is suppressed. In contrast, the and transitions exhibit the opposite trend. We found that this anomalous asymmetry is sensitive to subtle seniority breaking effects, providing a stringent test for state-of-the-art nucleon-nucleon interactions and nuclear models. We analyzed the anomalous asymmetry using VS-IMSRG calculations across various valence spaces. Our ab initio results suggest that core excitations of both proton and neutron across the shell are ascribed to the observed anomalous seniority breaking in the isotones.