First Exploration of Neutron Shell Structure below Lead and beyond N=126
Tang, T. L., Kay, B. P., Hoffman, C. R., Schiffer, J. P., Sharp, D. K., Gaffney, L. P., Freeman, S. J., Mumpower, M. R., Arokiaraj, A., Baader, E. F., Butler, P. A., Catford, W. N., de Angelis, G., Flavigny, F., Gott, M. D., Gregor, E. T., Konki, J., Labiche, M., Lazarus, I. H., . . . Yang, J. (2020). First Exploration of Neutron Shell Structure below Lead and beyond N=126. Physical Review Letters, 124(6), Article 062502. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.062502
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The nuclei below lead but with more than 126 neutrons are crucial to an understanding of the astrophysical r process in producing nuclei heavier than A∼190. Despite their importance, the structure and properties of these nuclei remain experimentally untested as they are difficult to produce in nuclear reactions with stable beams. In a first exploration of the shell structure of this region, neutron excitations in 207Hg have been probed using the neutron-adding (d,p) reaction in inverse kinematics. The radioactive beam of 206Hg was delivered to the new ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer at an energy above the Coulomb barrier. The spectroscopy of 207Hg marks a first step in improving our understanding of the relevant structural properties of nuclei involved in a key part of the path of the r process.
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This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 (ANL), the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council [Grants No. ST/P004598/1, No. ST/N002563/1, No. ST/M00161X/1 (Liverpool); No. ST/P004423/1 (Manchester); No. ST/P005314/1 (Surrey); No. ST/P005101/1 (West of Scotland); the ISOL-SRS G ...
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