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Area of Science:

  • Nuclear Physics
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Atomic Nuclei

Background:

  • Three-body decay is a rare process in unbound rare isotopes.
  • Nucleon correlations in these decays offer insights into nuclear structure and reactions.
  • Understanding two-nucleon emission is crucial for nuclear open quantum systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel time-dependent approach for studying two-nucleon emission.
  • To investigate the interplay between initial-state nucleon-nucleon correlations and final-state interactions.
  • To probe emitted nucleons at long times and large distances.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a time-dependent computational method.
  • Benchmarking the new method against the Green's function approach.
  • Application to low-energy two-proton and two-neutron decays.

Main Results:

  • The time evolution of the two-nucleon wave function is significantly influenced by diproton/dineutron dynamics.
  • Correlations between emitted nucleons provide crucial information about initial-state dinucleon structure.
  • The new method successfully probes nucleon emission at extended distances and times.

Conclusions:

  • The developed time-dependent approach is effective for studying nuclear open quantum systems.
  • Nucleon-nucleon correlations in the initial state play a critical role in two-nucleon emission.
  • Emitted nucleon correlations serve as a sensitive probe of dinucleon structure.