The surface diffuseness and the spin-orbital splitting in relativistic continuum Hartree-Bogoliubov theory

The relativistic continuum Hartree-Bogoliubov (RCHB) theory, which is the extension of the relativistic mean field and the Bogoliubov transformation in the coordinate representation, has been used to study tin isotopes. The pairing correlation is taken into account by a density-dependent force of zero range. The RCHB theory is used to describe the even-even tin isotopes all the way from the proton drip line to the neutron drip line. The contribution of the continuum which is important for nuclei near the drip-line has been taken into account, The theoretical St, as well as the neutron, proton, and matter rms radii are presented and compared with the experimental values where they exist. The change of the potential surface with the neutron number has been investigated. The diffuseness of the potentials in tin isotopes is analyzed through the spin-orbital splitting in order to provide new way to understand the halo phenomena in exotic nuclei. The systematic of the isospin and energy dependence of these results are extracted and analyzed. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V.Physics, NuclearSCI(E)45ARTICLE2176-19665