High-Precision Mass Measurements of Neutron Deficient Silver Isotopes Probe the Robustness of the N = 50 Shell Closure

Ge, Zhuang; Reponen, Mikael; Eronen, Tommi; Hu, Baishan; Kortelainen, Markus; Kankainen, Anu; Moore, Iain; Nesterenko, Dmitrii; Yuan, Cenxi; Beliuskina, Olga; Cañete, Laetitia; de Groote, Ruben; Delafosse, Clément; Dickel, Timo; de Roubin, Antoine; Geldhof, Sarina; Gins, Wouter; Holt, Jason D.; Hukkanen, Marjut; Jaries, Arthur; Jokinen, Ari; Koszorús, Ágota; Kripkó-Koncz, Gabriella; Kujanpää, Sonja; Lam, Yi Hua; Nikas, Stylianos; Ortiz-Cortes, Alejandro; Penttilä, Heikki; Pitman-Weymouth, Daniel; Plaß, Wolfgang; Pohjalainen, Ilkka; Raggio, Andrea; Rinta-Antila, Sami; Romero, Jorge; Stryjczyk, Marek; Vilen, Markus; Virtanen, Ville; Zadvornaya, Alexandra

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.132503

Title: High-Precision Mass Measurements of Neutron Deficient Silver Isotopes Probe the Robustness of the $N = 50$ Shell Closure

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