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Spectroscopy on the proton drip-line: Probing the structure dependence of isospin nonconserving interactions
2014
J. Henderson et al. ; 4 pags. ; 4 figs. ; PACS number(s): 21.10.Re, 21.60.Cs, 23.20.Lv, 27.50.+e
Spectroscopy of Transfermium Nuclei
2006
The advent of efficient recoil separator devices coupled to large arrays of germanium detectors and versatile focal plane detection systems has in recent years allowed a wealth of spectroscopic information to be obtained for transfermium nuclei. At the Department of Physics at the University of Jyvaskyla, the RITU gas‐filled separator is employed in conjunction with the GREAT focal plane spectrometer and the JUROGAM array of germanium detectors. Whilst initial studies using these devices concentrated on even‐even nuclei, more recent experiments have attempted to study single‐particle properties by examining the structure of odd‐mass nuclei and multi‐quasiparticle states. An overview of the …
A Statistical Analysis of the Nuclear Structure Uncertainties in $$\mu $$D
2020
The charge radius of the deuteron (D), was recently determined to three times the precision compared with previous measurements using the measured Lamb shift in muonic deuterium (\(\mu \)D). However, the \(\mu \)D value is 5.6 \(\sigma \) smaller than the world averaged CODATA-2014 value (Pohl R et al. (2016) Science 353:669 [1]). To shed light on this discrepancy we analyze the uncertainties of the nuclear structure calculations of the Lamb shift in \(\mu \)D and conclude that nuclear theory uncertainty is not likely to be the source of the discrepancy.
Lasers in Nuclear Physics
1988
The application of lasers in fundamental nuclear research has been devoted predominantly to the investigation of nuclear structure of unstable isotopes through the measurement of isotope shift and hyperfine splitting of the atomic spectrum of the nuclei in question. From the isotope shift one deduces the change of nuclear charge distribution — or more precisely the change of the mean-squared nuclear charge radius δ -, whereas the hyperfine structure yields the spin (I), the magnetic moment (μI) and the electric quadrupole moment (Qs) of the nucleus. These four nuclear properties form the cornerstones for any quantitative theory of nuclear structure. In this respect, systematic measurements,…
Weak-interaction and nuclear-structure aspects of nuclear double beta decay
1998
Abstract Weak-interaction and nuclear-structure aspects of double beta decay are reviewed. Starting from effective electroweak lagrangians, decay rates for the two-neutrino and neutrinoless modes of the nuclear double beta decay transitions are defined and second-order perturbative expressions for the nuclear decay amplitudes are given. Nuclear matrix elements of the relevant operators are presented, as extracted from data and from shell-model and QRPA calculations as well as from other theoretical approximations. The analysis is performed both for the two-neutrino and neutrinoless modes of the decay. The expressions for ground-state-to-ground-state and ground-state-to-excited-state transit…
Challenges for solid state detectors tracking detectors in nuclear physics experiments at FAIR
2007
The compelling scientific goals of future nuclear physics experiments demand significant advances in detector technology. Nuclear physics opportunities at future facility FAIR have never been so bright, but the detector challenges must be met. With the essential questions concerning nuclear structure and dynamics, nuclear astrophysics, limits of nuclear stability, tests of fundamental interactions and symmetries all being realistic targets of studies of exotic nuclei, detector development efforts are strongly motivated. Several examples of developments for future fixed target experiments as well as experiments at storage ring are outlined.
Nuclear levels in proton-unboundI109: Relative single-particle energies beyond the proton drip line
2007
A level scheme has been constructed for the proton-unbound, T-z=3/2 nuclide I-109(53)56 following a recoil-decay-tagging experiment using the Ni-58(Fe-54, p2n gamma) reaction at a beam energy of 19 ...
Application of the relativistic mean-field mass model to ther-process and the influence of mass uncertainties
2008
A new mass table calculated by the relativistic mean-field approach with the state-dependent BCS method for the pairing correlation is applied for the first time to study r-process nucleosynthesis. The solar r-process abundance is well reproduced within a waiting-point approximation approach. Using an exponential fitting procedure to find the required astrophysical conditions, the influence of mass uncertainty is investigated. The r-process calculations using the FRDM, ETFSI-Q, and HFB-13 mass tables have been used for that purpose. It is found that the nuclear physical uncertainty can significantly influence the deduced astrophysical conditions for the r-process site. In addition, the infl…
Muonic radioactive atoms - a unique probe for nuclear structure
2004
Muonic atoms have been a source of high-precision experimental nuclear structure data for decades, through muonic X-rays that yield information on nuclear charge distributions. The intense driver beams for production of radioactive beams in so-called second generation facilities will simultaneously be capable of producing unprecedented amounts of low-energy muons. This paper concerns some of the potential synergies of combining unions with radioactive nuclei. as one possible new tool to be used at future RIB facilities. As a case study, muonic capture rates into highly excited states in Ni-78 have been calculated.
Event rates for CDM detectors from large-scale shell-model calculations
2006
Abstract We investigate the scattering of the CDM candidate LSP (Lightest Supersymmetric Particle) off nuclei. We have computed the associated event rates and annual modulation signals for the 23 Na, 71 Ga, 73 Ge and 127 I CDM detectors by using the nuclear shell model in realistic model spaces and exploiting microscopic effective two-body interactions. Large-scale computations had to be performed in order to achieve convergence of the results. We have tabulated the associated nuclear-structure coefficients for several LSP masses enabling easy interpolation of our results for any other mass. The relevance of the spin-dependent and coherent channels for the event rates is discussed, from bot…