The tensor-kinetic field in nuclear collisions

Stevenson, 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 doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/381/1/012105

Abstract/Summary

The 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.