Two-body matrix elements of Pauli-projected excentric single-particle orbits

Abstract

We present explicit analytical formulae for two-body matrix elements between Pauli-projected single-particle orbits generated by gaussians shifted from the centre of a nuclear core, which is populated by nucleons occupying harmonic-oscillator orbits. Such shifted gaussian orbits appear in the generator-coordinate model of two-cluster systems and, as ingredients of generating functions, in the resonating group model as well. A Pauli projection is to be understood as a projection onto the subspace not occupied by the core nucleons. This is an exact procedure to take into account the Pauli principle in the limit in which the core is infinitely heavy, thus the procedure to be presented is very useful in the microscopic description of large-core plus small-cluster systems, such as involved in $α$-decay problems.