Abstract
The calcium isotopes have emerged as a critical testing ground for new microscopically derived shell-model interactions, and a great deal of experimental and theoretical focus has been directed toward this region. We investigate the relative spectroscopic strengths associated with 1f7/2 neutron hole states in Ca47,49 following one-neutron knockout reactions from Ca48,50. The observed reduction of strength populating the 7/21- state in Ca49, as compared to Ca47, is inconsistent with shell-model calculations using both phenomenological interactions such as GXPF1, and interactions derived from microscopically based two- and three-nucleon forces. The result suggests a fragmentation of the l=3 strength to higher-lying states as suggested by the microscopic calculations, but the observed magnitude of the reduction is not reproduced in any shell-model description.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Physical Review C |
Volume | 95 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 21 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Funding
The authors thank the operations team at NSCL for their work in beam delivery during the experiment. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Contracts No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 (LBNL) and No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 (ANL), by the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration under Grant No. DE-NA0000979, the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. PHY1102511, the European Research Council under Grant No. 307986 STRONGINT, and the BMBF under Contract No. 05P15RDFN1. H.L.C. also acknowledges the U.S. DOE under Grant No. DE-FG02-88ER40387 (OH). J.A.T. acknowledges the support of the United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) under Grant No. ST/L005743/1. J.M. was supported by an International Research Fellowship from JSPS, and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research No. 26.04323. GRETINA was funded by the U.S. DOE Office of Science. Operation of the array at NSCL is supported by NSF under Cooperative Agreement PHY11-02511 (NSCL) and DOE under Grant No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 (LBNL). Computations were performed with computing resources at the Julich Supercomputing Center.