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Deviations from the Porter-Thomas Distribution due to Nonstatistical Decay below the Nd Neutron Separation Threshold
O. Papst, J. Isaak, V. Werner +17
We introduce a new method for the study of fluctuations of partial transition widths based on nuclear resonance fluorescence experiments with quasimonochromatic linearly polarized…
Electric and magnetic dipole strength in Ni from forward-angle inelastic proton scattering
I. Brandherm, P. von Neumann-Cosel, R. Mancino +6
The aim of the present work is a state-by-state analysis of possible E1 and M1 transitions in Ni with a high-resolution (p,p') experiment at 295 MeV and very forward angles…
Candidate toroidal electric dipole mode in the spherical nucleus Ni
P. von Neumann-Cosel, V. O. Nesterenko, I. Brandherm +8
Dipole toroidal modes appear in many fields of physics. In nuclei, such a mode was predicted more than 50 years ago, but clear experimental evidence was lacking so far. Using a com…
A new avenue in the search for CP violation: Moessbauer spectroscopy of 227-Ac
M. Scheck, R. Chapman, J. Dobaczewski +5
This work proposes a new avenue in the search for CP-violating odd-electric and even-magnetic nuclear moments. A promising candidate to find such moments in the ground state is the…
Model-independent determination of the dipole response of Zn using quasi-monoenergetic and linearly-polarized photon beams
D. Savran, J. Isaak, R. Schwengner +23
[Background] Photon strength functions are an important ingredient in calculations relevant for the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements. The relation to the photoabsorption cross sec…
Isospin Mixing and the Cubic Isobaric Multiplet Mass Equation in the Lowest T = 2, A = 32 Quintet
M. Kamil, S. Triambak, A. Magilligan +24
The isobaric multiplet mass equation (IMME) is known to break down in the first T = 2, A = 32 isospin quintet. In this work we combine high-resolution experimental data with state-…
Charge radii, moments and masses of mercury isotopes across the N = 126 shell closure
T. Day Goodacre, A. V. Afanasjev, A. E. Barzakh +48
Combining laser spectroscopy in a Versatile Arc Discharge and Laser Ion Source, with Penning-trap mass spectrometry at the CERN-ISOLDE facility, this work reports on mean-square ch…
Laser spectroscopy of neutron-rich Hg isotopes: Illuminating the kink and odd-even staggering in charge radii across the shell closure
T. Day Goodacre, A. V. Afanasjev, A. E. Barzakh +41
The mean-square charge radii of Hg () have been studied for the first time and those of Hg () remeasured by the applicat…
Consistency of nucleon-transfer sum rules in well-deformed nuclei
B. P. Kay, J. P. Schiffer, S. J. Freeman +8
Nucleon-transfer sum rules have been assessed via a consistent reanalysis of cross-section data from neutron-adding (,) and -removing (,) reactions on well-deformed iso…
Accessing the Single-Particle Structure of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance in Pb
M. Spieker, A. Heusler, B. A. Brown +8
New experimental data on the neutron single-particle character of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance (PDR) in Pb are presented. They were obtained from and resonant proton…
Role of chiral two-body currents in Li magnetic properties in light of a new precision measurement with the relative self-absorption technique
U. Friman-Gayer, C. Romig, T. Hüther +18
A direct measurement of the decay width of the excited state of Li using the relative self-absorption technique is reported. Our value of $Γ_{γ, 0^+_1 \to 1^+_1} = 8.17…
Coulomb excitation of the , mirror pair
J. Henderson, G. Hackman, P. Ruotsalainen +23
Background: Electric-quadrupole () strengths relate to the underlying quadrupole deformation of a nucleus and present a challenge for many nuclear theories. Mirror nuclei in th…
Structure of high-lying levels populated in the Y Zr decay
K. R. Mashtakov, V. Yu. Ponomarev, M. Scheck +32
The nature of levels of Zr below the -decay value of Y has been investigated in high-resolution -ray spectroscopy following the decay as wel…
The observation of vibrating pear shapes in radon nuclei: update
P. A. Butler, L. P. Gaffney, P. Spagnoletti +41
There is a large body of evidence that atomic nuclei can undergo octupole distortion and assume the shape of a pear. This phenomenon is important for measurements of electric-dipol…
Shape coexistence in the neutron-deficient Hg investigated via lifetime measurements
M. Siciliano, I. Zanon, A. Goasduff +41
Shape coexistence in the region has been established in mercury, lead and polonium isotopes. Even-even mercury isotopes with present multiple f…
Evolution of Octupole Deformation in Radium Nuclei from Coulomb Excitation of Radioactive Ra and Ra Beams
P. A. Butler, L. P. Gaffney, P. Spagnoletti +40
There is sparse direct experimental evidence that atomic nuclei can exhibit stable pear shapes arising from strong octupole correlations. In order to investigate the nature of octu…
First Exploration of Neutron Shell Structure Below Lead and Beyond
T. L. Tang, B. P. Kay, C. R. Hoffman +26
The nuclei below lead but with more than 126 neutrons are crucial to an understanding of the astrophysical -process in producing nuclei heavier than . Despite their im…
First direct measurement of the intrinsic dipole moment in pear-shaped thorium isotopes
M. M. R. Chishti, D. O'Donnell, G. Battaglia +6
It is now well established that atomic nuclei composed of certain combinations of protons and neutrons can adopt reflection-asymmetric, or octupole-deformed, shapes at low excitati…
Shape staggering of mid-shell mercury isotopes from in-source laser spectroscopy compared with Density Functional Theory and Monte Carlo Shell Model calculations
S. Sels, T. Day Goodacre, B. A. Marsh +45
Neutron-deficient Hg isotopes were studied using in-source laser resonance-ionization spectroscopy at the CERN-ISOLDE radioactive ion-beam facility, in an experiment co…
Chronology of the three-body dissociation of He
B. Laurent, F. M. Marqués, C. Angulo +20
The space and time configurations of the dissociation of He into He++, on C and Pb targets, have been explored simultaneously for the first time. The final-state inte…
A revised value in the semi-magic nucleus Po
D. Kocheva, G. Rainovski, J. Jolie +29
The lifetimes of the , the and the states of Po have been measured in the Pb(C,Be)Po transfer reaction by the Doppler-s…
Rearrangement of valence neutrons in the neutrinoless double- decay of Xe
S. V. Szwec, B. P. Kay, T. E. Cocolios +13
A quantitative description of the change in ground-state neutron occupancies between Xe and Ba, the initial and final state in the neutrinoless double- decay of…
Direct Evidence of Octupole Deformation in Neutron-Rich Ba
B. Bucher, S. Zhu, C. Y. Wu +31
The neutron-rich nucleus Ba (=11.5 s) is expected to exhibit some of the strongest octupole correlations among nuclei with mass numbers less than 200. Until no…
Analysis methods of safe Coulomb-excitation experiments with radioactive ion beams using the gosia code
M. Zielińska, L. P. Gaffney, K. Wrzosek-Lipska +7
With the recent advances in radioactive ion beam technology, Coulomb excitation at safe energies becomes an important experimental tool in nuclear-structure physics. The usefulness…