Plunger Lifetime Measurements in 102Pd

Journal Article · Wed Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2006 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2200986· OSTI ID:20798598

Kalyva, G; Spyrou, A; Axiotis, M; Harissopulos, S ^[1]; Dewald, A; Fitzler, A; Saha, B; Liennemann, A ^[2]; Vlastou, R ^[3]; Napoli, D R; Marginean, N; Rusu, C; De Angelis, G ^[4]; Ur, C; Bazzacco, D; Farnea, E ^[5]; Balabanski, D L ^[6]; Julin, R ^[7]

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1. Institute of Nuclear Physics, NCSR 'Demokritos', 153.10 Aghia Paraskevi, Athens (Greece)
2. Institut fuer Kernphysik, Universitaet zu Koeln, Zuelpicherstr. 77, 50937 Cologne (Germany)
3. National Technical University of Athens, Zographou Campus, 15780 Athens (Greece)
4. INFN, Laboratori Nationali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Italy)
5. Dipartimento di Fisica dell' Universita, Padova (Italy)
6. Dipartimento di Fisica Universita degli Studi di Camerino, Camerino (Italy)
7. Department of Physics, University of Jyvaeskylae, POB 35, 40014 Jyvaeskylae (Finland)

Recently, an intense experimental effort has been devoted to the search of empirical proofs of critical-point symmetries in nuclear structure. These symmetries describe shape-phase transitions and provide parameter-free predictions (up to over-all scale factors) for excitation spectra and B(E2) values. This contribution reports on recent plunger-lifetime measurements ON 102Pd carried out at LNL, Legnaro, with the Cologne plunger apparatus coupled to the GASP spectrometer and using the 92Zr(13C,3n)102Pd reaction at 48 MeV. According to the results of our measurements, 102Pd is so far the best known paradigm of the E(5) critical-point symmetry.

• OSTI ID: 20798598
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 831, Issue 1; Conference: International conference on frontiers in nuclear structure, astrophysics, and reactions - FINUSTAR, Isle of Kos (Greece), 12-17 Sep 2005; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2200986; (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
CARBON 13
CARBON 13 REACTIONS
ENERGY LEVELS
EXCITATION
LIFETIME
MEV RANGE
NUCLEAR STRUCTURE
PALLADIUM 102
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
SYMMETRY
ZIRCONIUM 92
ZIRCONIUM 92 TARGET