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Conversion electron spectroscopy at IGISOL
2012
Conversion elecron spectroscopy has been an important part of the nuclear spectrocopy research at the Department of Physics of the University of Jyv¨askyl¨a since the commissioning of the first cyclotron in the mid 1970s. At the IGISOL facility a specialiced conversion electron spectrometer ELLI was developed in the late 1980s. The first results with ELLI were obtained using the beams from the old MC-20 cyclotron to study newly discovered isotopes of refractory fission products. In the present K130 cyclotron laboratory ELLI has been utilized in many decay-spectroscopy experiments both neutron-deficient and neutron-rich side of the valley of stability. In the early 2000s the new JYFLTRAP ion…
DETERMINATION OF NUCLEAR GROUND STATE PROPERTIES FAR FROM STABILITY BY OPTICAL PUMPING
1973
The possibilities of determining nuclear spin, moments and variation in charge volume by optical pumping of on line masseparated isotopes are described for the example of the isotopic chain lY1Hg-205Hg. The variation in nuclear charge volume (6 ) along this chain and in particular its abrupt change for the lightest Hg-isotopes, indicating a phase transition in nuclear structure, are discussed. 1. Introduction. - This talk is based on expe- riments (I), (2), (3) performed recently by a visiting team (*) at the ISOLDE facility at CERN with the members : J. Bonn, G. Huber, H.-J. Kluge, U. Kopf, L. Kugler, J. Rodriguez, and E. W. Otten. The investigation of the hyperfine structure (hfs) and iso…
Experimental Neutron Capture Rate Constraint Far from Stability
2016
Nuclear reactions where an exotic nucleus captures a neutron are critical for a wide variety of applications, from energy production and national security, to astrophysical processes, and nucleosynthesis. Neutron capture rates are well constrained near stable isotopes where experimental data are available; however, moving far from the valley of stability, uncertainties grow by orders of magnitude. This is due to the complete lack of experimental constraints, as the direct measurement of a neutron-capture reaction on a short-lived nucleus is extremely challenging. Here, we report on the first experimental extraction of a neutron capture reaction rate on ^{69}Ni, a nucleus that is five neutro…
Nuclear structure studies for the astrophysical r-process
2001
Abstract The production of the heaviest elements in nature occurs via the r-process, i.e. a combination of rapid neutron captures, the inverse photodisintegrations, and slower β − -decays, β -delayed processes as well as fission and possibly interactions with intense neutrino fluxes. A correct understanding and modeling requires the knowledge of nuclear properties far from stability and a detailed prescription of the astrophysical environment. Experiments at radioactive ion beam facilities have played a pioneering role in exploring the characteristics of nuclear structure in terms of masses and β -decay properties. Initial examinations paid attention to highly unstable nuclei with magic neu…
Extension of the ratio method to proton-rich nuclei
2019
The ratio method has been developed to improve the study of one-neutron halo nuclei through reactions. By taking the ratio of angular distributions for two processes, viz. breakup and elastic scattering, this new observable is nearly independent of the reaction mechanism and hence much more sensitive to the projectile structure than the cross sections for each single process. We study the extension of the ratio method to proton-rich nuclei and also explore the optimum experimental conditions for measuring this new observable. We compare accurate dynamical calculations of reactions for proton-rich projectiles to the prediction of the ratio method. We use the dynamical eikonal approximation t…
Nuclear Structure Properties of Neutron Rich Ge-Br Isotopes in the Astrophysical r-Process
2006
The astrophysical r-process is responsible for synthesis of roughly half of the elements heavier than iron. In spite of this significance, there are many uncertainties regarding the site of the r-process and the neutron-rich nuclei involved. Studying these nuclei presents a challenge, as they lie far from the valley of stability. Nuclear properties such as β decay half-lives and βdelayed neutron emission probabilities are critical inputs for r-process models. The neutron rich Ge-Br isotopes are in the region just after the N=50 bottle neck in the “classical” r-process, or may serve as seed material for the high entropy neutrino-wind r-process. Neutron rich nuclei play an important role in b…