Background: Strongly deformed oblate superheavy nuclei form an intriguing region where the toroidal nuclear structures may bifurcate from the oblate spheroidal shape. The bifurcation may be facilitated when the nucleus is endowed with a large angular moment about the symmetry axis with I = Iz. The toroidal high-K isomeric states at their local energy minima can be theoretically predicted using the cranked self-consistent Skyrme-Hartree-Fock method.Purpose: We use the cranked Skyrme-Hartree-Fock method to predict the properties of the toroidal high-spin isomers in the superheavy nucleus 304 120184.Method: Our method consists of three steps: first, we use the deformation-constrained Skyrme-Hartree-FockBogoliubov approach to search for the nuclear density distributions with toroidal shapes. Next, using these toroidal distributions as starting configurations we apply an additional cranking constraint of a large angular momentum I = Iz about the symmetry z-axis and search for the energy minima of the system as a function of the deformation. In the last step, if a local energy minimum with I = Iz is found, we perform at this point the cranked symmetry-and deformation-unconstrained Skyrme-Hartree-Fock calculations to locate a stable toroidal high-spin isomeric state in free convergence.
Results:We have theoretically located two toroidal high-spin isomeric states of 304 120184 with an angular momentum I=Iz=81 (proton 2p-2h, neutron 4p-4h excitation) and I=Iz=208 (proton 5p-5h, neutron 8p-8h) at the quadrupole moment deformations Q20 = −297.7 b and Q20 = −300.8 b with energies 79.2 MeV and 101.6 MeV above the spherical ground state, respectively. The nuclear density distributions of the toroidal high-spin isomers 304 120184(Iz=81 and 208 ) have the maximum density close to the nuclear matter density, 0.16 fm −3 , and a torus major to minor radius aspect ratio R/d = 3.25.
Conclusions:We demonstrate that aligned angular momenta of Iz=81 and 208 arising from multi-particlemulti-hole excitations in the toroidal system of 304 120184 can lead to high-spin isomeric states, even though the toroidal shape of 304 120184 without spin is unstable. Toroidal energy minima without spin may be possible for superheavy nuclei with higher atomic numbers, Z 122, as reported previously [7].