Systematics of Isospin Mixing in Proton Elastic Scattering from Light Nuclei

P. G. Ikossi; W. J. Thompson; T. B. Clegg; W. W. Jacobs; E. J. Ludwig

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.36.1357

Systematics of Isospin Mixing in Proton Elastic Scattering from Light Nuclei

P. G. Ikossi, W. J. Thompson, T. B. Clegg, W. W. Jacobs, and E. J. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 36, 1357 – Published 7 June 1976; Erratum Phys. Rev. Lett. 42, 1382 (1979)

Abstract

The effects of isospin mixing observed by isospin-forbidden resonant proton scattering from the stable, self-conjugate, even-even nuclei exhibit a simple dependence on target mass number $A$ . Furthermore, for $A = 8 n + 4$ , $n$ integral, the mixing is systematically a factor of 5 larger than for $A = 8 n$ The relation between this behavior and the trends of other relevant nuclear properties is discussed.