Two-proton correlations in the decay of Fe45

K. Miernik, W. Dominik, Z. Janas, M. Pfützner, L. Grigorenko, C. R. Bingham, H. Czyrkowski, M. Ćwiok, I. G. Darby, R. Da̧browski, T. Ginter, R. Grzywacz, M. Karny, A. Korgul, W. Kuśmierz, S. N. Liddick, M. Rajabali, K. Rykaczewski, A. Stolz

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    Abstract

    The decay of extremely neutron-deficient Fe45 has been studied in detail by means of a novel type of a gaseous detector employing digital imaging to record tracks of charged particles. The two-proton radioactivity channel was clearly identified. For the first time, the angular and energy correlations between two protons emitted from the nuclear ground state were determined, indicating the genuine three-body character of this decay. The half-life of Fe45 was found to be 2.6±0.2ms and the observed 2p decay branching ratio is 70±4%.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number192501
    JournalPhysical Review Letters
    Volume99
    Issue number19
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Nov 5 2007

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