Publications (45)
The structure of Ca under the Coulomb magnifying glass
L. Lalanne, O. Sorlin, A. Poves +28
Detailed spectroscopy of the neutron-deficient nucleus Ca was obtained up to 9 MeV using the Ca(,)Ca and the Ca(,)Ca transfer reactio…
Spectroscopy of P using the one-proton knockout reaction
A. Mutschler, O. Sorlin, A. Lemasson +16
The structure of P was studied with a one-proton knockout reaction at88~MeV/u from a S projectile beam at NSCL. The rays from thedepopulation of excited states i…
Low-lying single-particle structure of 17C and the N = 14 sub-shell closure
X. Pereira-López, B. Fernández-DomÃnguez, F. Delaunay +58
The first investigation of the single-particle structure of the bound states of 17C, via the d(16C, p) transfer reaction, has been undertaken. The measured angular distributions co…
Tracking algorithms for the active target MAYA
T. Roger, M. Caamaño, C. E. Demonchy +3
The MAYA detector is a Time-Charge Projection Chamber based on the concept of active target. These type of devices use a part of the detection system, the filling gas in this case,…
Narrow resonances in the continuum of the unbound nucleus F
V. Girard-Alcindor, A. Mercenne, I. Stefan +100
The structure of the unbound F nucleus is investigated using the inverse kinematics resonant scattering of a radioactive O beam impinging on a CH target. The anal…
Study of Sn+Xe fusion-evaporation: analysis of a rare-event experiment
Benoît Avez, Antoine Drouart, Ch. Stodel +27
Fusion-evaporation in the Sn+Xe system is studied using a high intensity xenon beam provided by the Ganil accelerator and the LISE3 wien filter for the selection of…
Calculation of the spectrum of 12Li by using the multistep shell model method in the complex energy plane
Z. X. Xu, R. J. Liotta, Chong Qi +4
The unbound nucleus Li is evaluated by using the multistep shell model in the complex energy plane assuming that the spectrum is determined by the motion of three neutrons o…
Enhanced nonlinear refractive index in epsilon-near-zero materials
L. Caspani, R. P. M. Kaipurath, M. Clerici +9
New propagation regimes for light arise from the ability to tune the dielectric permittivity to extremely low values. Here we demonstrate a universal approach based on the low line…
Isotopic fission yields of Pu as a function of the excitation energy
D. Ramos, M. Caamaño, F. Farget +16
Complete isotopic fission yields distributions of Pu have been measured as a function of the initial excitation energy. The Pu fissioning system was produced throug…
Self-Tuning Transmitter for Quantum Key Distribution Using Machine Intelligence
Y. S. Lo, R. I. Woodward, T. Roger +5
The development and performance of quantum technologies heavily relies on the properties of the quantum states, which often require careful optimization of the driving conditions o…
The Structure of Si and the magicity of the N=20 gap at Z=14
S. Jongile, A. Lemasson, O. Sorlin +20
The structure of Si was studied by a one-neutron knockout reaction from a Si beam at 98.5 MeV/u incident on a Be target. The prompt -rays following the de-e…
Scission configuration of U from yields and kinetic information of fission fragments
D. Ramos, M. Caamano, A. Lemasson +25
The simultaneous measurement of the isotopic fission-fragment yields and fission-fragment velocities of U has been performed for the first time. The U fissioning sy…
Cross-shell states in C: a test for p-sd interactions
J. Lois-Fuentes, B. Fernández-DomÃnguez, X. Pereira-López +59
The low-lying structure of C has been investigated via the neutron-removal C reaction. Along with bound neutron sd-shell hole states, unbound p-shell hole stat…
Measurement of two-halo neutron transfer reaction p(Li,Li)t at 3 MeV
I. Tanihata, M. Alcorta, D. Bandyopadhyay +23
The p(\nuc{11}{Li},\nuc{9}{Li})t reaction has been studied for the first time at an incident energy of 3 MeV delivered by the new ISAC-2 facility at TRIUMF. An active target det…
In-gas-cell laser ionization spectroscopy in the vicinity of 100Sn: Magnetic moments and mean-square charge radii of N=50-54 Ag
R. Ferrer, N. Bree, T. E. Cocolios +15
In-gas-cell laser ionization spectroscopy studies on the neutron deficient 97-101Ag isotopes have been performed with the LISOL setup. Magnetic dipole moments and mean-square charg…
Spectroscopy of 46Ar by the (t,p) two-neutron transfer reaction
K. Nowak, K. Wimmer, S. Hellgartner +24
States in the nucleus Ar have been studied by a two-neutron transfer reaction at REX-ISOLDE (CERN). A beam of radioactive at an energy of 2.16~AMeV and a trit…
Analysis of the unbound spectrum of Li
Z. X. Xu, R. J. Liotta, Chong Qi +4
The unbound nucleus Li is evaluated by studying three-neutron one-proton excitations within the multistep shell model in the complex energy plane. It is found that the groun…
Experimental investigation of ground-state properties of H with transfer reactions
M. Caamaño, T. Roger, A. M. Moro +18
The properties of nuclei with extreme neutron-to-proton ratios, far from those naturally occurring on Earth, are key to understand nuclear forces and how nucleons hold together to…
Spectroscopy of Na: shell evolution toward the drip line
A. Lepailleur, K. Wimmer, A. Mutschler +40
Excited states in Na have been studied using the -decay of implanted Ne ions at GANIL/LISE as well as the in-beam -ray spectroscopy at the NSCL/S800 facility.…
First direct measurement of isotopic fission-fragment yields of U
D. Ramos, M. Caamano, A. Lemasson +25
A direct and complete measurement of isotopic fission-fragment yields of U has been performed for the first time. The U fissioning system was produced with an avera…
Unbound neutron strength in C and the N=16 shell gap
J. Lois-Fuentes, B. Fernández-DomÃnguez, F. Delaunay +61
Significant continuum strength has been observed to be populated in C produced in the d(C,p) reaction at a beam energy of 17.2~MeV/nucleon. The strength appears at gr…
Signature of a possible -cluster state in doubly-magic Ni
S. Bagchi, H. Akimune, J. Gibelin +36
An inelastic -scattering experiment on the unstable , doubly-magic Ni nucleus was performed in inverse kinematics at an incident energy of 50 A.MeV at GANIL. High m…
Resolving the ultrafast dynamics of charge carriers in nanocomposites
J. Barreto, T. Roger, A. Kaplan
Here we describe an optical method to determine the dynamics of optically excited carriers in nanostructured composite samples. By combining pump-probe time-resolved reflectivity w…
Quenching of the proton - spin-orbit splitting in O and the effect of the tensor force
J. Lois-Fuentes, B. Fernández-DomÃnguez, T. Roger +37
We present the first direct measurement of the Z=6 shell gap in the neutron-rich 20O nucleus. The one-proton removal transfer reaction 2H(20O,3He)19N has been studied using the ACT…
Two-proton correlations in the decay of 48Ni and 45Fe
A. Ortega Moral, S. M. Wang, J. Giovinazzo +28
The main observables of the rare two-proton emission process - half-life, total energy of the decay as well as energy and angular correlations between the emitted protons - have be…
Metasurface imaging with entangled photons
C. Altuzarra, A. Lyons, G. Yuan +4
Plasmonics and metamaterials have recently been shown to allow the control and interaction with non-classical states of light, a rather counterintuitive finding given the high loss…
Evaluation of the K(,)Ca reaction rate using the Ca(,)Ca transfer reaction
L. Lalanne, O. Sorlin, M. Assié +28
A recent sensitivity study has shown that the KCa reaction is one of the ten reaction rates that could significantly impact the shape of the calculated…
Optically induced metal-to-dielectric transition in Epsilon-Near-Zero metamaterials
R. M. Kaipurath, M. Pietrzyk, L. Caspani +6
Epsilon-Near-Zero materials exhibit a transition in the real part of the dielectric permittivity from positive to negative value as a function of wavelength. Here we study metal-di…
Spontaneous photon production in time-dependent epsilon-near-zero materials
A. Prain, S. Vezzoli, N. Westerberg +2
Quantum field theory predicts that a spatially homogeneous but temporally varying medium will excite photon pairs out of the vacuum state. However, this important theoretical predi…
Probing nuclear forces beyond the nuclear drip line: The cases of F and F
V. Girard-Alcindor, I. Stefan, F. de Oliveira Santos +53
The unbound proton-rich nuclei F and F are investigated experimentally and theoretically. Several experiments using the resonant elastic scattering method were perfor…
A proton density bubble in the doubly magic Si nucleus
A. Mutschler, A. Lemasson, O. Sorlin +19
Many properties of the atomic nucleus, such as vibrations, rotations and incompressibility, can be interpreted as due to a two component quantum liquid of protons and neutrons. Ele…
Coulomb and nuclear excitations of Zn and Ni at intermediate energy
S. Calinescu, O. Sorlin, I. Matea +48
The reduced transition probabilities in Zn and the full strength up to S=7.79 MeV in N…
Mirror nucleon-transfer reactions from Ne and O
F. Flavigny, N. Keeley, A. Gillibert +26
The Ne(d,t)Ne and Ne(d,He)F single-nucleon pickup reactions were measured at 16.5 MeV/nucleon in inverse kinematics together with elastic and inelas…
The MORA project
P. Delahaye, E. Liénard, I. Moore +25
The MORA (Matter's Origin from the RadioActivity of trapped and oriented ions) project aims at measuring with unprecedented precision the D correlation in the nuclear beta decay of…
Experimental evidence of the effect of nuclear shells on fission dissipation and time
D. Ramos, M. Caamano, F. Farget +20
Nuclear fission is still one of the most complex physical processes we can observe in nature due to the interplay of macroscopic and microscopic nuclear properties that decide the…
Transfer reactions in inverse kinematics, an experimental approach for fission investigations
C. RodrÃguez-Tajes, F. Farget, X. Derkx +21
Inelastic and multi-nucleon transfer reactions between a U beam, accelerated at 6.14 MeV/u, and a C target were used for the production of neutron-rich, fissioning s…
Isotopic fission fragment distributions as a deep probe to fusion-fission dynamics
F. Farget, M. Caamano, O. Delaune +37
During the fission process, the nucleus deforms and elongates up to the two fragments inception and their final separation at scission deformation. The evolution of the nucleus ene…
Neutron-proton pairing in the N=Z radioactive fp-shell nuclei 56Ni and 52Fe probed by pair transfer
B. Le Crom, M. Assié, Y. Blumenfeld +49
The isovector and isoscalar components of neutron-proton pairing are investigated in the N=Z unstable nuclei of the \textit{fp}-shell through the two-nucleon transfer reaction (p,$…
Characterization of the scission point from fission-fragment velocities
M. Caamaño, F. Farget, O. Delaune +16
The isotopic-yield distributions and kinematic properties of fragments produced in transfer-induced fission of 240Pu and fusion-induced fission of 250Cf, with 9 MeV and 45 MeV of e…
Hindered Prompt-Neutron Evaporation in Surrogate Reactions for Pu(n,f)
D. Ramos, M. Caamano, F. Farget +18
Isotopic fission-fragment distributions of Pu have been measured, for the first time, as a function of the initial excitation energy, and the prompt neutron multiplicity ha…
Isotopic Yield Distributions of Transfer- and Fusion-Induced Fission from 238U+12C Reactions in Inverse Kinematics
M. Caamaño, O. Delaune, F. Farget +18
A novel method to access the complete identification in atomic number Z and mass A of fragments produced in low-energy fission of actinides is presented. This method, based on the…
N=16 magicity revealed at the proton drip-line through the study of 35Ca
L. Lalanne, O. Sorlin, A. Poves +27
The last proton bound calcium isotope Ca has been studied for the first time, using the Ca()Ca two neutron transfer reaction. The radioactive Ca n…
Structure of unbound neutron-rich He studied using single-neutron transfer
T. Al Kalanee, J. Gibelin, P. Roussel-Chomaz +23
The 8He(d,p) reaction was studied in inverse kinematics at 15.4A MeV using the MUST2 Si-CsI array in order to shed light on the level structure of 9He. The well known 16O(d,p)17O r…
Simplified intensity- and phase-modulated transmitter for modulator-free decoy-state quantum key distribution
Y. S. Lo, R. I. Woodward, N. Walk +8
Quantum key distribution (QKD) allows secret key exchange between two users with unconditional security. For QKD to be widely deployed, low cost and compactness are crucial require…
The CORALIE survey for southern extrasolar planets XVIII. Three new massive planets and two low mass brown dwarfs at separation larger than 5 AU
E. L. Rickman, D. Ségransan, M. Marmier +36
Context. Since 1998, a planet-search around main sequence stars within 50~pc in the southern hemisphere has been carried out with the CORALIE spectrograph at La Silla Observatory.…