Beyond mean-field description of the low-lying spectrum of 16O

Starting from constrained Skyrme-mean-field calculations, the low-energy excitation spectrum of O-16 is calculated by configuration mixing of particle-number and angular-momentum projected mean-field states in the framework of the Generator Coordinate Method. Without any adjustable parameters, this approach gives a very good description of those states and their transition moments that can be described with our restriction to axially and reflection-symmetric shapes. The structure of low-lying 0(+) states is analyzed in terms of self-consistent 0p-0h, 2p-2h, and 4p-4h Hartree-Fock states. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.