Shell structure beyond the proton drip line studied via proton emission from deformed 141Ho

M. Karny, K. P. Rykaczewski, R. K. Grzywacz, J. C. Batchelder, C. R. Bingham, C. Goodin, C. J. Gross, J. H. Hamilton, A. Korgul, W. Królas, S. N. Liddick, K. Li, K. H. Maier, C. Mazzocchi, A. Piechaczek, K. Rykaczewski, D. Schapira, D. Simpson, M. N. Tantawy, J. A. WingerC. H. Yu, E. F. Zganjar, N. Nikolov, J. Dobaczewski, A. T. Kruppa, W. Nazarewicz, M. V. Stoitsov

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Abstract

Fine structure in proton emission from the 7 / 2- [523] ground state and from the 1 / 2+ [411] isomer in deformed nucleus 141Ho was studied by means of fusion-evaporation reactions and digital signal processing. Proton transitions to the first excited 2+ state in 140Dy, with the branching ratio of Ipg s (2+) = 0.9 ± 0.2 % and Ipm (2+) = 1.7 ± 0.5 %, were observed. The data are analyzed within the non-adiabatic weak coupling model assuming a large quadrupole deformation of the daughter nucleus 140Dy as predicted by the self-consistent theory. Implications of this result on coexistence effects around N = 74 are discussed. Significant modifications of the proton shell structure when going from the valley of beta stability to the proton drip line are discussed in terms of self-consistent theory involving the two-body tensor interaction.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)52-56
Number of pages5
JournalPhysics Letters B
Volume664
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 12 2008

Funding

ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the US Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. This work was also supported by the US DOE through Contract Nos. DE-FG02-96ER40983, DE-FG02-96ER40963, DE-FC02-07ER41457, DE-FG02-96ER41006, DE-FG05-88ER40407, DE-FG02-96ER40978, and DE-AC05-76OR00033; by the National Nuclear Security Administration through DOE Research Grant DE-FG03-03NA00083; by the Polish Ministry of Science; by the Foundation for Polish Science (A.K.); by the Academy of Finland and University of Jyväskylä within the FIDIPRO program; and by Hungarian OTKA grant No. T46791.

Keywords

  • Proton radioactivity
  • Proton shell structure
  • Two-body tensor interactions

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