Charge Radius of the Short-Lived and Correlation with the Dipole Polarizability
Abstract
We present the first laser spectroscopic measurement of the neutron-rich nucleus 68Ni at the N = 40 subshell closure and extract its nuclear charge radius. Since this is the only short-lived isotope for which the dipole polarizability $$α$$D has been measured, the combination of these observables provides a benchmark for nuclear structure theory. We compare them to novel coupled-cluster calculations based on different chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions, for which a strong correlation between the charge radius and dipole polarizability is observed, similar to the stable nucleus 48Ca. Three-particle–three-hole correlations in coupled-cluster theory substantially improve the description of the experimental data, which allows to constrain the neutron radius and neutron skin of 68Ni.
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); ISOLDE Collaboration; European Union’s Horizon 2020; German Research Foundation (DFG); German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE); Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
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- 1607964
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- OSTI ID: 1633144
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- AC05-00OR22725; SC0018223; 654002; 05P18RDCIA; 05P18RDFN1; 05P19RDFN1; ST/ L005670/1; ST/L005794/1; ST/P004423/1; ST/ P004598/1
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- Published Article
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- Physical Review Letters
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- Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 124 Journal Issue: 13; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
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- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
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Kaufmann, S., Simonis, J., Bacca, S., Billowes, J., Bissell, M. L., Blaum, K., Cheal, B., Ruiz, R. F. Garcia, Gins, W., Gorges, C., Hagen, G., Heylen, H., Kanellakopoulos, A., Malbrunot-Ettenauer, S., Miorelli, M., Neugart, R., Neyens, G., Nörtershäuser, W., Sánchez, R., Sailer, S., Schwenk, A., Ratajczyk, T., Rodríguez, L. V., Wehner, L., Wraith, C., Xie, L., Xu, Z. Y., Yang, X. F., and Yordanov, D. T. Charge Radius of the Short-Lived Ni68 and Correlation with the Dipole Polarizability. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.132502.
Kaufmann, S., Simonis, J., Bacca, S., Billowes, J., Bissell, M. L., Blaum, K., Cheal, B., Ruiz, R. F. Garcia, Gins, W., Gorges, C., Hagen, G., Heylen, H., Kanellakopoulos, A., Malbrunot-Ettenauer, S., Miorelli, M., Neugart, R., Neyens, G., Nörtershäuser, W., Sánchez, R., Sailer, S., Schwenk, A., Ratajczyk, T., Rodríguez, L. V., Wehner, L., Wraith, C., Xie, L., Xu, Z. Y., Yang, X. F., & Yordanov, D. T. Charge Radius of the Short-Lived Ni68 and Correlation with the Dipole Polarizability. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.132502
Kaufmann, S., Simonis, J., Bacca, S., Billowes, J., Bissell, M. L., Blaum, K., Cheal, B., Ruiz, R. F. Garcia, Gins, W., Gorges, C., Hagen, G., Heylen, H., Kanellakopoulos, A., Malbrunot-Ettenauer, S., Miorelli, M., Neugart, R., Neyens, G., Nörtershäuser, W., Sánchez, R., Sailer, S., Schwenk, A., Ratajczyk, T., Rodríguez, L. V., Wehner, L., Wraith, C., Xie, L., Xu, Z. Y., Yang, X. F., and Yordanov, D. T. Wed .
"Charge Radius of the Short-Lived Ni68 and Correlation with the Dipole Polarizability". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.132502.
@article{osti_1607964,
title = {Charge Radius of the Short-Lived Ni68 and Correlation with the Dipole Polarizability},
author = {Kaufmann, S. and Simonis, J. and Bacca, S. and Billowes, J. and Bissell, M. L. and Blaum, K. and Cheal, B. and Ruiz, R. F. Garcia and Gins, W. and Gorges, C. and Hagen, G. and Heylen, H. and Kanellakopoulos, A. and Malbrunot-Ettenauer, S. and Miorelli, M. and Neugart, R. and Neyens, G. and Nörtershäuser, W. and Sánchez, R. and Sailer, S. and Schwenk, A. and Ratajczyk, T. and Rodríguez, L. V. and Wehner, L. and Wraith, C. and Xie, L. and Xu, Z. Y. and Yang, X. F. and Yordanov, D. T.},
abstractNote = {We present the first laser spectroscopic measurement of the neutron-rich nucleus 68Ni at the N = 40 subshell closure and extract its nuclear charge radius. Since this is the only short-lived isotope for which the dipole polarizability $α$D has been measured, the combination of these observables provides a benchmark for nuclear structure theory. We compare them to novel coupled-cluster calculations based on different chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions, for which a strong correlation between the charge radius and dipole polarizability is observed, similar to the stable nucleus 48Ca. Three-particle–three-hole correlations in coupled-cluster theory substantially improve the description of the experimental data, which allows to constrain the neutron radius and neutron skin of 68Ni.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.132502},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 13,
volume = 124,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {4}
}
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.132502
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