activity
20152026
most citedAb initio predictions link the neutron skin of Pb to nuclear forces

263 citations · 1.6k across the 44 of their papers we have counts for

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45 papers

nucl-ex2026

Electromagnetic transition strength in Ca: the lifetime of the state

S. Chen, M. Petri, S. Paschalis +36

High-resolution in-beam -ray spectroscopy of Ca was performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) at RIKEN. Excited states in Ca were populated via one-…

nucl-ex2026

Probing the Size of Neutron and Proton Single-Particle Orbitals from Nucleon Knockout Reactions

M. Enciu, A. Obertelli, P. Doornenbal +83

The size of neutron and proton single-particle orbitals of Ca, Ca, Ca, and Sc were investigated via nucleon knockout reactions at 230 MeV/nucleon…

nucl-ex2026

-forbidden strengths near Sn from knockout reactions in Cd and Sn

T. J. Gray, K. L. Jones, R. Grzywacz +21

Neutron knockout reactions on beams of Cd, and Sn are presented. States in the residual Cd and Sn nuclei are populated, including low-lying…

nucl-ex2025

Charge radii of neutron-rich scandium isotopes and the seniority symmetry in the shell

S. W. Bai, X. F. Yang, Á. Koszorús +30

Nuclear charge radii of neutron-rich Sc isotopes were measured using collinear laser spectroscopy at CERN-ISOLDE. The new data reveal that the charge radii of scandium is…

nucl-ex2025

Exploring the Onset of Collectivity Approaching N=40 through Manganese Masses

C. Chambers, M. P. Reiter, A. T. Gallant +24

Isotopes in the region of the nuclear chart below have been the subject of intense experimental and theoretical effort due to the potential onset of a new ``isla…

nucl-ex2025★ 6 cited

Refined topology of the N = 20 island of inversion with high precision mass measurements of Na and Mg

E. M. Lykiardopoulou, C. Walls, J. Bergmann +30

Mass measurements of Na and Mg using the TITAN MR-TOF-MS at TRIUMF's ISAC facility are presented, with the uncertainty of the Na mass reduced by over two…

nucl-th2024

Correlation of neutrinoless double-beta decay nuclear matrix elements with nucleon-nucleon phase shifts

A. Belley, J. Pitcher, T. Miyagi +2

We present an ab initio study of the correlation between nuclear matrix elements of neutrinoless double-beta () decay and nucleon-nucleon scattering phase shifts in the $^1S_…

nucl-ex2024

Suppressed Electric Quadrupole Collectivity in Ti

T. J. Gray, J. M. Allmond, C. Benetti +34

Single-step Coulomb excitation of Ti is presented. A complete set of matrix elements for the quintuplet of states in Ti, centered on the core exci…

nucl-ex2023★ 13 cited

Electromagnetic moments of the antimony isotopes Sb

S. Lechner, T. Miyagi, Z. Y. Xu +22

Nuclear moments of the antimony isotopes Sb are measured by collinear laser spectroscopy and used to benchmark phenomenological shell-model and \textit{ab initio} calcu…

nucl-th2023★ 40 cited

Impact of two-body currents on magnetic dipole moments of nuclei

T. Miyagi, X. Cao, R. Seutin +5

We investigate the effects of two-body currents on magnetic dipole moments of medium-mass and heavy nuclei using the valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group with c…

nucl-ex2023★ 24 cited

Surprising charge-radius kink in the Sc isotopes at N=20

Kristian König, Stephan Fritzsche, Gaute Hagen +11

Charge radii of neutron deficient 40Sc and 41Sc nuclei were determined using collinear laser spectroscopy. With the new data, the chain of Sc charge radii extends below the neutron…

nucl-th2023★ 50 cited

Ab initio uncertainty quantification of neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge

A. Belley, J. M. Yao, B. Bally +9

The observation of neutrinoless double-beta () decay would offer proof of lepton number violation, demonstrating that neutrinos are Majorana particles, while also helping us…

nucl-th2023

Magnetic dipole operator from chiral effective field theory for many-body expansion methods

R. Seutin, O. J. Hernandez, T. Miyagi +4

Many-body approaches for atomic nuclei generally rely on a basis expansion of the nuclear states, interactions, and current operators. In this work, we derive the representation of…

nucl-th2023★ 2 cited

Ab initio calculations of neutrinoless decay refine neutrino mass limits

A. Belley, T. Miyagi, S. R. Stroberg +1

Neutrinos are perhaps the most elusive known particles in the universe. We know they have some nonzero mass, but unlike all other particles, the absolute scale remains unknown. In…

nucl-th2023★ 2 cited

Randomized Low-Rank Decompositions of Nuclear Three-Body Interactions

A. Tichai, P. Arthuis, K. Hebeler +5

First-principles simulations of many-fermion systems are commonly limited by the computational requirements of processing large data objects. As a remedy, we propose the use of low…

nucl-ex2023★ 19 cited

Isomeric excitation energy for In from mass spectrometry reveals constant trend next to doubly magic Sn

L. Nies, D. Atanasov, M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis +16

The excitation energy of the 1/2 isomer in In at is measured to be 671(37) keV and the mass uncertainty of the 9/2 ground state is significantly reduced usi…

nucl-ex2023★ 26 cited

Microsecond Isomer at the N=20 Island of Shape Inversion Observed at FRIB

T. J. Gray, J. M. Allmond, Z. Xu +63

Excited-state spectroscopy from the first Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) experiment is reported. A 24(2)-s isomer was observed with the FRIB Decay Station initiator (FDS…

nucl-th2023★ 50 cited

\texttt{NuHamil}: A numerical code to generate nuclear two- and three-body matrix elements from chiral effective field theory

Takayuki Miyagi

The applicability of nuclear {\it ab initio} calculations has rapidly extended over the past decades. However, starting research projects is still challenging due to the required n…

nucl-ex2022★ 43 cited

Charge radii of Ni reveal a surprisingly similar behavior at in Ca and Ni isotopes

F. Sommer, K. König, D. M. Rossi +24

Nuclear charge radii of Ni were measured by collinear laser spectroscopy. The obtained information completes the behavior of the charge radii at the shell closure of the…

nucl-ex2022★ 42 cited

Proton distribution radii of O: signatures of new shell closures and neutron skin

S. Kaur, R. Kanungo, W. Horiuchi +38

The root mean square radii of the proton density distribution in O derived from measurements of charge changing cross sections with a carbon target at 900 MeV to…

nucl-ex2022★ 22 cited

Summit of the N=40 Island of Inversion: precision mass measurements and ab initio calculations of neutron-rich chromium isotopes

R. Silwal, C. Andreoiu, B. Ashrafkhani +24

Mass measurements continue to provide invaluable information for elucidating nuclear structure and scenarios of astrophysical interest. The transition region between the a…

nucl-th2022★ 23 cited

Ab initio studies of double Gamow-Teller transition and its correlation with neutrinoless double beta decay

J. M. Yao, I. Ginnett, A. Belley +7

We use chiral interactions and several {\em ab initio} methods to compute the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) for ground-state to ground-state double Gamow-Teller transitions in a r…

nucl-ex2022

Electromagnetic moments of scandium isotopes and isotones in the distinctive orbit

S. W. Bai, Á. Koszorús, B. S. Hu +31

The electric quadrupole moment of Sc was measured by collinear laser spectroscopy at CERN-ISOLDE to be b, and a nearly tenfold improvement in precis…

nucl-ex2022★ 19 cited

Mapping the Island of Inversion: Precision Mass Measurements of Neutron-rich Fe Isotopes

W. S. Porter, B. Ashrafkhani, J. Bergmann +32

Nuclear properties across the chart of nuclides are key to improving and validating our understanding of the strong interaction in nuclear physics. We present high-precision mass m…