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Evidence for the extinction of the N=20 neutron-shell closure for 32Mg from direct mass measurements

  • A. Chaudhuri
  • , C. Andreoiu
  • , T. Brunner
  • , U. Chowdhury
  • , S. Ettenauer
  • , A. T. Gallant
  • , G. Gwinner
  • , A. A. Kwiatkowski
  • , A. Lennarz
  • , D. Lunney
  • , T. D. Macdonald
  • , B. E. Schultz
  • , M. C. Simon
  • , V. V. Simon
  • , J. Dilling

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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 languageEnglish
Article number054317
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume88
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 18 2013
Externally publishedYes

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