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First Exploration of Neutron Shell Structure below Lead and beyond N=126
2020
The nuclei below lead but with more than 126 neutrons are crucial to an understanding of the astrophysical r process in producing nuclei heavier than A∼190. Despite their importance, the structure and properties of these nuclei remain experimentally untested as they are difficult to produce in nuclear reactions with stable beams. In a first exploration of the shell structure of this region, neutron excitations in ^{207}Hg have been probed using the neutron-adding (d,p) reaction in inverse kinematics. The radioactive beam of ^{206}Hg was delivered to the new ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer at an energy above the Coulomb barrier. The spectroscopy of ^{207}Hg marks a first step in improving our…
New High-Precision Measurement of the Reaction Rate of the 18O(p, α)15N Reaction via THM
2008
The 18O(p,alpha)15N reaction rate has been extracted by means of the Trojan-Horse method. For the first time the contribution of the 20-keV peak has been directly evaluated, giving a value about 35% larger than previously estimated. The present approach has allowed to improve the accuracy of a factor 8.5, as it is based on the measured strength instead of educated guesses or spectroscopic measurements. The contribution of the 90-keV resonance has been determined as well, which turned out to be of negligible importance to astrophysics.
Production and Characterization of the $^{7}$H Resonance
2006
Détecteur MAYA; International audience; The 7H resonance was produced via one-proton transfer reaction between a 8He beam at 15.4A MeV and a 12C gas target. The experimental setup was based on the active-target MAYA which allowed a complete reconstruction of the reaction kinematics. The characterization of the identified 7H events resulted in a resonance energy of 600 keV above the 3H+4n threshold and a resonance width of 100 keV. This study represents the first unambiguous proof of the existence of the 7H state.
FARCOS, a new array for femtoscopy and correlation spectroscopy
2012
Correlations between two or more particles can be used as a tool to explore the space-time features of nuclear reactions as well as spectroscopic properties of produced unbound clusters. In order to have new options to study the mentioned correlations, FARCOS (Femtoscope ARray for COrrelations and Spectroscopy) has been conceived as a compact high resolution array, composed of square telescopes. In this work the main features of FARCOS array as well as part of the physics cases are described. © Owned by the authors, 2012.
Decays of new nuclides and isomers beyond the proton drip line - The influence of neutron configurations
2008
Bozok University;Erciyes University;et al.;Istanbul University;Nigde University;The Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK)
N/Z effects on40,48Ca+40,48Ca reactions at 25 MeV/nucleon
2012
Effects related to the neutron to proton ratio (N/Z) degree of freedom in 40, 48Ca+40, 48Ca reactions at 25 MeV/nucleon have been investigated. Isotopic effect and even-odd staggering characterize the emission of light fragments at forward angles. The study of isobaric ratio 7Li/7Be for quasi-projectile source in semi-peripheral event of reactions allows moreover to investigate isospin diffusion effects in heavy ion collisions. © Owned by the authors, 2012.
Mott scattering as a probe of long range QCD effects
1994
We investigate the possibility of using the Mott scattering between identical nuclei to assess the existence of long range QCD effects, e.g., a color van der Waals interaction, as suggested recently. We show that the inclusion of atomic effects is very important and should be considered in order to extract limits on the strength of the color van der Waals force. We compare our calculations with the analysis of a recent heavy ion experiment.
Microscopic s-wave optical potential for slow pions scattered by a nucleus.
1989
We have done a microscopic calculation of the {ital s}-wave optical potential for the pion-nucleus system at low energies, 0{le}{ital T}{sub {pi}}{le}100 MeV, using a description based on hadronic degrees of freedom. We have obtained, separately, the real and imaginary parts of the optical potential coming from one-body and two-body processes. We have also separated the imaginary part of the potential associated to absorption and to quasielastic channels. We find that the imaginary part of the absorption channel is independent of the energy (within the range of energies considered here) in agreement with a recent empirical determination. We compare our results with phenomenological potentia…
Astrophysical reaction rates forB10(p,α)7Be andB11(p,α)8Be from a direct model
1996
The reactions $^{10}\mathrm{B}$(p,\ensuremath{\alpha}${)}^{7}$Be and $^{11}\mathrm{B}$(p,\ensuremath{\alpha}${)}^{8}$Be are studied at thermonuclear energies using DWBA calculations. For both reactions, transitions to the ground states and first excited states are investigated. In the case of $^{10}\mathrm{B}$(p,\ensuremath{\alpha}${)}^{7}$Be, a resonance at ${\mathit{E}}_{\mathrm{res}}$=10 keV can be consistently described in the potential model, thereby allowing the extension of the astrophysical S-factor data to very low energies. Strong interference with a resonance at about ${\mathit{E}}_{\mathrm{res}}$=550 keV require a Breit-Wigner description of that resonance and the introduction o…
Atmospheric neutrino observations and flavor changing interactions
1999
Flavor changing (FC) neutrino-matter interactions can account for the zenith-angle dependent deficit of atmospheric neutrinos observed in the SuperKamiokande experiment, without directly invoking neither neutrino mass, nor mixing. We find that FC $\nu_\mu$-matter interactions provide a good fit to the observed zenith angle distributions, comparable in quality to the neutrino oscillation hypothesis. The required FC interactions arise naturally in many attractive extensions of the Standard Model.