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Recent data resulting from studies of two-nucleon transfer reaction on 11Li, analyzed through a unified nuclear-structure-direct-reaction theory have provided strong direct as well as indirect confirmation, through the population of the first excited state of 9Li and of the observation of a strongly quenched ground state transition, of the prediction that phonon-mediated pairing interaction is the main mechanism binding the neutron halo of the 8.5-ms-lived 11Li nucleus. In other words, the ground state of 11Li can be viewed as a neutron Cooper pair bound to the 9Li core, mainly through the exchange of collective vibration of the core and of the pigmy resonance arizing from the sloshing back and forth of the neutron halo against the protons of the core, the mean field leading to unbound two-particle states, a situation essentially not altered by the bare nucleon-nucleon interaction acting between the halo neutrons. Two-neutron pick-up data, together with (t, p) data on 7Li, suggest the existence of a pairing vibrational band based on 9Li, whose members can be excited with the help of inverse kinematic experiments as was done in the case of 11Li(p, t)9Li reaction. The deviation from harmonicity can provide insight into the workings of medium polarization effects on Cooper-pair nuclear pairing, let alone specific information concering the “rigidity” of the N = 6 shell closure. Further information concerning these questions is provided by the predicted absolute differential cross sections σ abs associated with the reactions 12Be(p, t)10Be(g.s.) and 12Be(p, t)10Be(pv) (≈10Be(p, t)8Be(g.s.)). In particular, concerning this last reaction, predictions of σ abs can change by an order of magnitude depending on whether the halo properties associated with the d 5/2 orbital are treated selfconsistently in calculating the ground state correlations of the (pair removal) mode, or not.
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Potel, G., Idini, A., Barranco, F. et al. Nuclear field theory predictions for 11Li and 12Be: Shedding light on the origin of pairing in nuclei. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 77, 941–968 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377881407014X
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