Publication Type
Journal
Journal Name
Physical Review C
Publication Date
Page Numbers
1 to 12
Volume
111
Issue
4
Abstract
The island of inversion is a region of neutron-rich nuclei around 31Na that are deformed in their ground states. In this region, less is known about the energy levels of odd-mass nuclei, how they evolve with increasing neutron numbers, and how they can be organized into rotational bands. We perform ab initio coupled-cluster calculations of spectra in odd-mass Ne, Na, and Mg nuclei based on an interaction of chiral effective field theory. Our results confirm some tentative spin and parity assignments, predict the structure of nuclei near the neutron dripline, and inform us about rotational bands in this region of the nuclear table.
