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Abstract:
Nuclear β decay in magic nuclei is investigated, taking into account the coupling between particles and collective vibrations, on top of self-consistent random phase approximation calculations based on Skyrme density functionals. The low-lying Gamow-Teller strength is shifted downwards and at times becomes fragmented; as a consequence, the β-decay half-lives are reduced due to the increase of the phase space available for the decay. In some cases, this leads to a very good agreement between theoretical and experimental lifetimes: this happens, in particular, in the case of the Skyrme force SkM* that can also reproduce the line shape of the high-energy Gamow-Teller resonance as was previously shown.
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