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Title: Cross-shell excitations in Ca 46 studied with fusion reactions induced by a reaccelerated rare isotope beam

Abstract

Discovering unexplored high-spin states in neutron-rich nuclei can open up a new direction to study band structure and the associated shell structure in isospin-asymmetric many-body systems. However, experimental reach has so far been limited to neutron-deficient or stable nuclei which are preferentially produced in fusion reactions used in such studies. Here in this paper, we report the first γ-ray spectroscopy with fusion reactions using a reaccelerated rare-isotope beam of 45K performed at the ReA3 facility of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. Using particle and γ-ray coincidence techniques, three new higher-lying states around 6 MeV and five new γ-ray transitions were identified for 46Ca, suggesting three independent band structures formed from different particle-hole configurations. The rotational-like band built on the 0$$^+_2$$ state is established up to the tentatively assigned 6$$^+_2$$ state. New results are compared to large-scale shell model calculations, confirming the validity of the effective interaction describing particle-hole excitations across the Z=20 and N=28 shell gaps in the vicinity of doubly-magic 48Ca.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [1]; ORCiD logo [3];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [4];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [5];  [6]; ORCiD logo [1];  [7]
  1. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
  2. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory; Ruđer Bosković Institute, Zagreb (Croatia)
  3. Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA (United States)
  4. Univ. of Surrey, Guildford (United Kingdom)
  5. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory; Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
  6. Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai (Japan). Advanced Science Research Center
  7. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
OSTI Identifier:
1782868
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1783444; OSTI ID: 1804893; OSTI ID: 1811909; OSTI ID: 1811913
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-815295
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985; TRN: US2210055
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0020451; NA0003180; AC52-07NA27344; 20K03981
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review C
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 103; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Collective levels; Nuclear fusion; Nuclear structure & decays

Citation Formats

Ash, J., Iwasaki, H., Mijatović, T., Budner, T., Elder, R., Elman, B., Friedman, M., Gade, A., Grinder, M., Henderson, J., Longfellow, B., Revel, A., Rhodes, D., Spieker, M., Utsuno, Y., Weisshaar, D., and Wu, C. Y. Cross-shell excitations in Ca 46 studied with fusion reactions induced by a reaccelerated rare isotope beam. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevc.103.l051302.
Ash, J., Iwasaki, H., Mijatović, T., Budner, T., Elder, R., Elman, B., Friedman, M., Gade, A., Grinder, M., Henderson, J., Longfellow, B., Revel, A., Rhodes, D., Spieker, M., Utsuno, Y., Weisshaar, D., & Wu, C. Y. Cross-shell excitations in Ca 46 studied with fusion reactions induced by a reaccelerated rare isotope beam. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.103.l051302
Ash, J., Iwasaki, H., Mijatović, T., Budner, T., Elder, R., Elman, B., Friedman, M., Gade, A., Grinder, M., Henderson, J., Longfellow, B., Revel, A., Rhodes, D., Spieker, M., Utsuno, Y., Weisshaar, D., and Wu, C. Y. Fri . "Cross-shell excitations in Ca 46 studied with fusion reactions induced by a reaccelerated rare isotope beam". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.103.l051302. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1782868.
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title = {Cross-shell excitations in Ca 46 studied with fusion reactions induced by a reaccelerated rare isotope beam},
author = {Ash, J. and Iwasaki, H. and Mijatović, T. and Budner, T. and Elder, R. and Elman, B. and Friedman, M. and Gade, A. and Grinder, M. and Henderson, J. and Longfellow, B. and Revel, A. and Rhodes, D. and Spieker, M. and Utsuno, Y. and Weisshaar, D. and Wu, C. Y.},
abstractNote = {Discovering unexplored high-spin states in neutron-rich nuclei can open up a new direction to study band structure and the associated shell structure in isospin-asymmetric many-body systems. However, experimental reach has so far been limited to neutron-deficient or stable nuclei which are preferentially produced in fusion reactions used in such studies. Here in this paper, we report the first γ-ray spectroscopy with fusion reactions using a reaccelerated rare-isotope beam of 45K performed at the ReA3 facility of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. Using particle and γ-ray coincidence techniques, three new higher-lying states around 6 MeV and five new γ-ray transitions were identified for 46Ca, suggesting three independent band structures formed from different particle-hole configurations. The rotational-like band built on the 0$^+_2$ state is established up to the tentatively assigned 6$^+_2$ state. New results are compared to large-scale shell model calculations, confirming the validity of the effective interaction describing particle-hole excitations across the Z=20 and N=28 shell gaps in the vicinity of doubly-magic 48Ca.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevc.103.l051302},
journal = {Physical Review C},
number = 5,
volume = 103,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 14 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Fri May 14 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}

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