Probing Sizes and Shapes of Nobelium Isotopes by Laser Spectroscopy

Raeder, S.; Ackermann, D.; Backe, H.; Beerwerth, R.; Berengut, J. C.; Block, M.; Borschevsky, A.; Cheal, B.; Chhetri, P.; Düllmann, Ch. E.; Dzuba, V. A.; Eliav, E.; Even, J.; Ferrer, R.; Flambaum, V. V.; Fritzsche, S.; Giacoppo, F.; Götz, S.; Heßberger, F. P.; Huyse, M.; Kaldor, U.; Kaleja, O.; Khuyagbaatar, J.; Kunz, P.; Laatiaoui, M.; Lautenschläger, F.; Lauth, W.; Mistry, A. K.; Ramirez, E. Minaya; Nazarewicz, W.; Porsev, S. G.; Safronova, M. S.; Safronova, U. I.; Schuetrumpf, B.; Van Duppen, P.; Walther, T.; Wraith, C.; Yakushev, A.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.232503

Title: Probing Sizes and Shapes of Nobelium Isotopes by Laser Spectroscopy

Abstract

Until recently, ground-state nuclear moments of the heaviest nuclei could only be inferred from nuclear spectroscopy, where model assumptions are required. Here, laser spectroscopy in combination with modern atomic structure calculations is now able to probe these moments directly, in a comprehensive and nuclear- model-independent way. In this work, we reported on unique access to the differential mean-square charge radii of ^252,253,254No, and therefore to changes in nuclear size and shape. State-of-the-art nuclear density functional calculations describe well the changes in nuclear charge radii in the region of the heavy actinides, indicating an appreciable central depression in the deformed proton density distribution in ^252,254No isotopes.

Authors:

Raeder, S. ^[1]; Ackermann, D. ^[2]; Backe, H. ^[3]; Beerwerth, R. ^[4]; Berengut, J. C. ^[5]; Block, M. ^[6]; Borschevsky, A. ^[7]; Cheal, B. ^[8]; Chhetri, P. ^[9]; Düllmann, Ch. E. ^[6]; Dzuba, V. A. ^[5]; Eliav, E. ^[10]; Even, J. ^[7]; Ferrer, R. ^[11]; Flambaum, V. V. ^[12]; Fritzsche, S. ^[4]; Giacoppo, F. ^[1]; Götz, S. ^[13]; Heßberger, F. P. ^[1]; Huyse, M. ^[11] more »

Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Mainz (Germany); GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany)
GANIL, Caen (France); GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany)
Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz (Germany)
Helmholtz-Institut Jena, Jena (Germany); Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Jena (Germany)
Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)
Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Mainz (Germany); GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany); Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz (Germany)
Univ. of Groningen, Groningen (The Netherlands)
Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool (United Kingdom)
GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany); Technische Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Germany)
Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv (Israel)
KU Leuven, Leuven (Belgium)
Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Mainz (Germany); Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)
Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Mainz (Germany); Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz (Germany)
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany); Technische Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Germany); Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik, Heidelberg (Germany)
TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
Institut de Physique Nucleaire Orsay, Orsay (France)
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States); Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute of NRC “Kurchatov Institute,” Gatchina (Russia)
Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States); NIST and the Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States)
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany); Technische Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Germany)
Technische Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Germany)

Publication Date:: Fri Jun 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018

Research Org.:: Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

OSTI Identifier:: 1491249

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1441067

Grant/Contract Number:: NA0002847; SC0013365; SC0018083

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Physical Review Letters

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 120; Journal Issue: 23; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS

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                    Raeder, S., Ackermann, D., Backe, H., Beerwerth, R., Berengut, J. C., Block, M., Borschevsky, A., Cheal, B., Chhetri, P., Düllmann, Ch. E., Dzuba, V. A., Eliav, E., Even, J., Ferrer, R., Flambaum, V. V., Fritzsche, S., Giacoppo, F., Götz, S., Heßberger, F. P., Huyse, M., Kaldor, U., Kaleja, O., Khuyagbaatar, J., Kunz, P., Laatiaoui, M., Lautenschläger, F., Lauth, W., Mistry, A. K., Ramirez, E. Minaya, Nazarewicz, W., Porsev, S. G., Safronova, M. S., Safronova, U. I., Schuetrumpf, B., Van Duppen, P., Walther, T., Wraith, C., and Yakushev, A. Probing Sizes and Shapes of Nobelium Isotopes by Laser Spectroscopy.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Raeder, S., Ackermann, D., Backe, H., Beerwerth, R., Berengut, J. C., Block, M., Borschevsky, A., Cheal, B., Chhetri, P., Düllmann, Ch. E., Dzuba, V. A., Eliav, E., Even, J., Ferrer, R., Flambaum, V. V., Fritzsche, S., Giacoppo, F., Götz, S., Heßberger, F. P., Huyse, M., Kaldor, U., Kaleja, O., Khuyagbaatar, J., Kunz, P., Laatiaoui, M., Lautenschläger, F., Lauth, W., Mistry, A. K., Ramirez, E. Minaya, Nazarewicz, W., Porsev, S. G., Safronova, M. S., Safronova, U. I., Schuetrumpf, B., Van Duppen, P., Walther, T., Wraith, C., & Yakushev, A. Probing Sizes and Shapes of Nobelium Isotopes by Laser Spectroscopy.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.232503

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                    Raeder, S., Ackermann, D., Backe, H., Beerwerth, R., Berengut, J. C., Block, M., Borschevsky, A., Cheal, B., Chhetri, P., Düllmann, Ch. E., Dzuba, V. A., Eliav, E., Even, J., Ferrer, R., Flambaum, V. V., Fritzsche, S., Giacoppo, F., Götz, S., Heßberger, F. P., Huyse, M., Kaldor, U., Kaleja, O., Khuyagbaatar, J., Kunz, P., Laatiaoui, M., Lautenschläger, F., Lauth, W., Mistry, A. K., Ramirez, E. Minaya, Nazarewicz, W., Porsev, S. G., Safronova, M. S., Safronova, U. I., Schuetrumpf, B., Van Duppen, P., Walther, T., Wraith, C., and Yakushev, A. Fri .  
"Probing Sizes and Shapes of Nobelium Isotopes by Laser Spectroscopy".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.232503.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1491249.

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@article{osti_1491249,

  title        = {Probing Sizes and Shapes of Nobelium Isotopes by Laser Spectroscopy},

  author       = {Raeder, S. and Ackermann, D. and Backe, H. and Beerwerth, R. and Berengut, J. C. and Block, M. and Borschevsky, A. and Cheal, B. and Chhetri, P. and Düllmann, Ch. E. and Dzuba, V. A. and Eliav, E. and Even, J. and Ferrer, R. and Flambaum, V. V. and Fritzsche, S. and Giacoppo, F. and Götz, S. and Heßberger, F. P. and Huyse, M. and Kaldor, U. and Kaleja, O. and Khuyagbaatar, J. and Kunz, P. and Laatiaoui, M. and Lautenschläger, F. and Lauth, W. and Mistry, A. K. and Ramirez, E. Minaya and Nazarewicz, W. and Porsev, S. G. and Safronova, M. S. and Safronova, U. I. and Schuetrumpf, B. and Van Duppen, P. and Walther, T. and Wraith, C. and Yakushev, A.},

  abstractNote = {Until recently, ground-state nuclear moments of the heaviest nuclei could only be inferred from nuclear spectroscopy, where model assumptions are required. Here, laser spectroscopy in combination with modern atomic structure calculations is now able to probe these moments directly, in a comprehensive and nuclear- model-independent way. In this work, we reported on unique access to the differential mean-square charge radii of 252,253,254No, and therefore to changes in nuclear size and shape. State-of-the-art nuclear density functional calculations describe well the changes in nuclear charge radii in the region of the heavy actinides, indicating an appreciable central depression in the deformed proton density distribution in 252,254No isotopes.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.232503},

  journal      = {Physical Review Letters},

  number       = 23,

  volume       = 120,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri Jun 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018},

  month        = {Fri Jun 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018}

}

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Nuclear core densities, isotope shifts, and the parametrization of the droplet model journal, March 1985

Alpha-gamma decay studies of 251, 253No and their daughter products 247, 249Fm journal, November 2004

The velocity filter ship, a separator of unslowed heavy ion fusion products journal, April 1979

Structure of rotational bands in 253No journal, August 2009

Spectroscopy of transfermium nuclei: 102252No journal, December 2001

Combination of the many-body perturbation theory with the configuration-interaction method journal, November 1996

Calculation of isotope shifts and relativistic shifts in C I, C II, C III, and C IV journal, January 2006

Relativistic Quantum Theory of Atoms and Molecules book, January 2007

Prospects for laser spectroscopy, ion chemistry and mobility measurements of superheavy elements in buffer-gas traps journal, December 2015

Average nuclear properties journal, December 1969

Nuclear Ground-State Masses and Deformations journal, March 1995

Laser spectroscopy for nuclear structure physics journal, January 2016

Variations on a theme by Skyrme: A systematic study of adjustments of model parameters journal, March 2009

Toward a global description of nuclear charge radii: Exploring the Fayans energy density functional journal, June 2017

The grasp2K relativistic atomic structure package journal, October 2007

Development of a configuration-interaction plus all-order method for atomic calculations journal, July 2009

Combination of the single-double–coupled-cluster and the configuration-interaction methods: Application to barium, lutetium, and their ions journal, July 2014

Combining configuration interaction with perturbation theory for atoms with a large number of valence electrons journal, January 2017

Atom-at-a-time laser resonance ionization spectroscopy of nobelium journal, September 2016

High-resolution laser spectroscopy of long-lived plutonium isotopes journal, March 2017

An update on droplet-model charge distributions journal, November 1983

In-beam study of 253No using the SAGE spectrometer journal, February 2017

K Isomers in No 254 : Probing Single-Particle Energies and Pairing Strengths in the Heaviest Nuclei journal, August 2006

Laser Spectroscopic Investigation of the Element Fermium (Z = 100) journal, March 2006

Table of experimental nuclear ground state charge radii: An update journal, January 2013

Problem of “deformed” superheavy nuclei journal, February 2001

Central depression in nucleonic densities: Trend analysis in the nuclear density functional theory approach journal, August 2017

The coulomb redistribution energy as revealed by a refined study of nuclear masses journal, January 1992

Shell effects in the properties of the heaviest nuclei journal, January 1989

Shapes and α- and β-decays of superheavy nuclei journal, December 2015

Impact of buffer gas quenching on the 1S0 → 1P1 ground-state atomic transition in nobelium journal, July 2017

In-beam spectroscopy of heavy elements journal, December 2015

On laser spectroscopy of the element nobelium (Z = 102) journal, March 2014

Structure of the Odd- A , Shell-Stabilized Nucleus No 102 253 journal, July 2005

Nuclear isomers in superheavy elements as stepping stones towards the island of stability journal, August 2006

Nuclear energy density optimization: Large deformations journal, February 2012

Nuclear Ground-State Masses and Deformations text, January 1993

Laser Spectroscopy of the Heaviest Elements: One Atom at a Time journal, January 2019

Analytic response relativistic coupled-cluster theory: the first application to indium isotope shifts journal, January 2020

Fast configuration-interaction calculations for nobelium and ytterbium journal, March 2019

Analytic Response Relativistic Coupled-Cluster Theory: The first application to indium isotope shifts text, January 2019

Ground-State Band and Deformation of the $Z = 102$ Isotope ${}^{254}N o$
journal, January 1999

Developments for resonance ionization laser spectroscopy of the heaviest elements at SHIP
journal, September 2016

Shell-Structure and Pairing Interaction in Superheavy Nuclei: Rotational Properties of the $Z = 104$ Nucleus ${}^{256}{Rf}$
journal, July 2012

Measurements of cross sections for the fusion-evaporation reactions $^{204, 206, 207, 208} Pb +^{48} Ca$ and $^{207} Pb +^{34} S :$ Decay properties of the even-even nuclides $^{238} Cf$ and $^{250} No$
journal, October 2001

Electronic structure theory of the superheavy elements
journal, December 2015

The TDHF code Sky3D
journal, July 2014

Perspectives for laser spectroscopy of the element nobelium
journal, November 2013

In-beam study of 254No
journal, September 1999

Nuclear core densities, isotope shifts, and the parametrization of the droplet model
journal, March 1985

Alpha-gamma decay studies of 251, 253No and their daughter products 247, 249Fm
journal, November 2004

The velocity filter ship, a separator of unslowed heavy ion fusion products
journal, April 1979

Structure of rotational bands in 253No
journal, August 2009

Spectroscopy of transfermium nuclei: 102252No
journal, December 2001

Combination of the many-body perturbation theory with the configuration-interaction method
journal, November 1996

Calculation of isotope shifts and relativistic shifts in C I, C II, C III, and C IV
journal, January 2006

Relativistic Quantum Theory of Atoms and Molecules
book, January 2007

Prospects for laser spectroscopy, ion chemistry and mobility measurements of superheavy elements in buffer-gas traps
journal, December 2015

Average nuclear properties
journal, December 1969

Nuclear Ground-State Masses and Deformations
journal, March 1995

Laser spectroscopy for nuclear structure physics
journal, January 2016

Variations on a theme by Skyrme: A systematic study of adjustments of model parameters
journal, March 2009

Toward a global description of nuclear charge radii: Exploring the Fayans energy density functional
journal, June 2017

The grasp2K relativistic atomic structure package
journal, October 2007

Development of a configuration-interaction plus all-order method for atomic calculations
journal, July 2009

Combination of the single-double–coupled-cluster and the configuration-interaction methods: Application to barium, lutetium, and their ions
journal, July 2014

Combining configuration interaction with perturbation theory for atoms with a large number of valence electrons
journal, January 2017

Atom-at-a-time laser resonance ionization spectroscopy of nobelium
journal, September 2016

High-resolution laser spectroscopy of long-lived plutonium isotopes
journal, March 2017

An update on droplet-model charge distributions
journal, November 1983

In-beam study of 253No using the SAGE spectrometer
journal, February 2017

$K$ Isomers in ${}^{254}{No}$ : Probing Single-Particle Energies and Pairing Strengths in the Heaviest Nuclei
journal, August 2006

Laser Spectroscopic Investigation of the Element Fermium (Z = 100)
journal, March 2006

Table of experimental nuclear ground state charge radii: An update
journal, January 2013

Problem of “deformed” superheavy nuclei
journal, February 2001

Central depression in nucleonic densities: Trend analysis in the nuclear density functional theory approach
journal, August 2017

The coulomb redistribution energy as revealed by a refined study of nuclear masses
journal, January 1992

Shell effects in the properties of the heaviest nuclei
journal, January 1989

Shapes and α- and β-decays of superheavy nuclei
journal, December 2015

Impact of buffer gas quenching on the 1S0 → 1P1 ground-state atomic transition in nobelium
journal, July 2017

In-beam spectroscopy of heavy elements
journal, December 2015

On laser spectroscopy of the element nobelium (Z = 102)
journal, March 2014

Structure of the Odd- $A$ , Shell-Stabilized Nucleus ${}_{102}^{253}{No}$
journal, July 2005

Nuclear isomers in superheavy elements as stepping stones towards the island of stability
journal, August 2006

Nuclear energy density optimization: Large deformations
journal, February 2012

Nuclear Ground-State Masses and Deformations
text, January 1993

Laser Spectroscopy of the Heaviest Elements: One Atom at a Time
journal, January 2019

Analytic response relativistic coupled-cluster theory: the first application to indium isotope shifts
journal, January 2020

Fast configuration-interaction calculations for nobelium and ytterbium
journal, March 2019

Analytic Response Relativistic Coupled-Cluster Theory: The first application to indium isotope shifts
text, January 2019