Abstract
High-accuracy mass measurements of neutron-deficient Yb isotopes have been performed at TRIUMF using TITAN's multiple-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MR-TOF-MS). For the first time, an MR-TOF-MS was used on line simultaneously as an isobar separator and as a mass spectrometer, extending the measurements to two isotopes further away from stability than otherwise possible. The ground state masses of Yb150,153 and the excitation energy of Ybm151 were measured for the first time. As a result, the persistence of the N=82 shell with almost unmodified shell gap energies is established up to the proton drip line. Furthermore, the puzzling systematics of the h11/2-excited isomeric states of the N=81 isotones are unraveled using state-of-the-art mean field calculations.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 112501 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 127 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 10 2021 |
Funding
We would like to thank J. Lassen and the TRILIS ion source group for the excellent beam conditions. This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Grant No. SCHE 1969/2-1; by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), Grants No. 05P16RGFN1 and No. 05P19RGFN1; by the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art through the LOEWE Center HIC for FAIR; by the JLU and GSI Helmholtzzentrum f\u00FCr Schwerionenforschung under the JLU-GSI strategic Helmholtz partnership agreement; by the Polish National Science Centre under Contract No. 2016/21/B/ST2/01227; and by the UKRI Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Grant No. ST/P004008/1. Support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 11975209, and the Physics Research and Development Program of Zhengzhou University, Grant No. 32410017, are acknowledged. TITAN is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada and through TRIUMF by the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada. N.\u2009M. acknowledges the support by the FAIR Phase-0 project and by Bulgarian NSF Contract No. KP-06-N48/1. E.\u2009D. acknowledges the support by the Canada-UK Foundation.