Abstract
The "island of inversion" around 32Mg is one of the most important paradigms for studying the disappearance of the stabilizing "magicity" of a shell closure. We present the first Penning-trap mass measurements of the exotic nuclides 29-31Na and 30-34Mg, which allow precise determination of the empirical shell gap for 32Mg. The new value of 1.10(3) MeV is the smallest observed shell gap for any nuclide with a canonical magic number.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 054317 |
| Journal | Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| State | Published - Nov 18 2013 |
| Externally published | Yes |