1.
|
The observation of vibrating pear-shapes in radon nuclei
/ Butler, P.A. (Liverpool U.) ; Gaffney, L.P. (Liverpool U. ; CERN) ; Spagnoletti, P. (West Scotland U.) ; Konki, J. (CERN) ; Scheck, M. (West Scotland U.) ; Smith, J.F. (West Scotland U.) ; Abrahams, K. (Western Cape U.) ; Bowry, M. (TRIUMF) ; Cederkäll, J. (Lund U.) ; Chupp, T. (Michigan U.) et al.
There is a large body of evidence that atomic nuclei can undergo octupole distortion and assume the shape of a pear. This phenomenon is important for measurements of electric-dipole moments of atoms, which would indicate CP violation and hence probe physics beyond the standard model of particle physics. [...]
arXiv:2003.10147.-
2019-06-06 - 6 p.
- Published in : Nature Commun. 10 (2019) 2473
Fulltext: 2003.10147 - PDF; 7a6aa522dd658653207485bc1ee38876 - PDF; s41467-019-10494-5 - PDF;
|
|
2.
|
Addendum: The observation of vibrating pear-shapes in radon nuclei
/ Butler, P A (Liverpool U.) ; Gaffney, L P (Liverpool U. ; CERN) ; Spagnoletti, P (West Scotland U.) ; Konki, J (CERN) ; Scheck, M (West Scotland U.) ; Smith, J F (West Scotland U.) ; Abrahams, K (Western Cape U.) ; Bowry, M (TRIUMF) ; Cederkäll, J (Lund U.) ; Chupp, T (Michigan U.) et al.
2020
- Published in : Nature Commun. 11 (2020) 3560
Fulltext: PDF; External link: Fulltext from publisher
|
|
3.
|
Publisher Correction: The observation of vibrating pear-shapes in radon nuclei [doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-10494-5]
/ Butler, P A (Liverpool U.) ; Gaffney, L P (Liverpool U. ; CERN) ; Spagnoletti, P (West Scotland U.) ; Konki, J (CERN) ; Scheck, M (West Scotland U.) ; Smith, J F (West Scotland U.) ; Abrahams, K (Western Cape U.) ; Bowry, M (TRIUMF) ; Cederkäll, J (Lund U.) ; Chupp, T et al.
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper..
2020 - 1 p.
- Published in : Nature Commun. 11 (2020) 5185
|
|
4.
|
Electromagnetic properties of low-lying states in neutron-deficient Hg isotopes: Coulomb excitation of $^{182}$Hg, $^{184}$Hg, $^{186}$Hg and $^{188}$Hg
/ Wrzosek-Lipska, K (Warsaw U., Heavy Ion Lab ; Leuven U.) ; Rezynkina, K (Leuven U. ; U. Strasbourg) ; Bree, N (Leuven U.) ; Zielińska, M (Warsaw U., Heavy Ion Lab ; IRFU, Saclay) ; Gaffney, L P (Liverpool U. ; Leuven U. ; CERN ; West Scotland U.) ; Petts, A (Liverpool U.) ; Andreyev, A (Leuven U. ; York U., England) ; Bastin, B (Leuven U. ; GANIL) ; Bender, M (Lyon, IPN) ; Blazhev, A (Cologne U.) et al.
The neutron-deficient mercury isotopes serve as a classical example of shape coexistence, whereby at low energy near-degenerate nuclear states characterized by different shapes appear. The electromagnetic structure of even-mass $^{182-188}$ Hg isotopes was studied using safe-energy Coulomb excitation of neutron-deficient mercury beams delivered by the REX-ISOLDE facility at CERN. [...]
2019 - 23 p.
- Published in : Eur. Phys. J. A 55 (2019) 130
Fulltext (Open Access version from publisher): PDF;
|
|
5.
|
Evolution of Octupole Deformation in Radium Nuclei from Coulomb Excitation of Radioactive $^{222}\mathrm{Ra}$ and $^{228}\mathrm{Ra}$ Beams
/ Butler, P.A. (U. Liverpool (main)) ; Gaffney, L.P. (U. Liverpool (main) ; CERN) ; Spagnoletti, P. (Paisley U.) ; Abrahams, K. (Western Cape U.) ; Bowry, M. (Paisley U. ; TRIUMF) ; Cederkäll, J. (Lund U.) ; de Angelis, G. (INFN, Legnaro) ; De Witte, H. (Leuven U.) ; Garrett, P.E. (Guelph U.) ; Goldkuhle, A. (Cologne U.) et al.
There is sparse direct experimental evidence that atomic nuclei can exhibit stable pear shapes arising from strong octupole correlations. In order to investigate the nature of octupole collectivity in radium isotopes, electric octupole ($E3$) matrix elements have been determined for transitions in $^{222,228}$Ra nuclei using the method of sub-barrier, multi-step Coulomb excitation. [...]
arXiv:2001.09681.-
2020-02-01 - 6 p.
- Published in : Phys. Rev. Lett. 124 (2020) 042503
Fulltext: PDF; Fulltext from publisher: PDF;
|
|
6.
|
Benchmarking the PreSPEC@GSI experiment for Coulex-multipolarimetry on the $\pi (p_{3/2})\rightarrow \pi (p_{1/2})$ spin-flip transition in $^{85}$Br
/ Napiralla, P (Darmstadt, Tech. Hochsch. ; Darmstadt, GSI) ; Lettmann, M (Darmstadt, Tech. Hochsch.) ; Stahl, C (Darmstadt, Tech. Hochsch.) ; Rainovski, G (Sofiya U.) ; Pietralla, N (Darmstadt, Tech. Hochsch.) ; Afara, S (King Saud U.) ; Ameil, F (Darmstadt, GSI) ; Arici, T (Darmstadt, GSI) ; Aydin, S (Aksaray U.) ; Barrientos, D (CERN) et al.
A first performance test of the Coulomb excitation multipolarimetry (Coulex-multipolarimetry) method is presented. It is based on a $^{85}\hbox {Br}\,\pi p_{3/2}\rightarrow \pi p_{1/2}$ spin-flip experiment performed as part of the PreSPEC-AGATA campaign at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (GSI). [...]
2020 - 10 p.
- Published in : Eur. Phys. J. A 56 (2020) 147
|
|
7.
|
Collectivity in the light radon nuclei measured directly via Coulomb excitation
/ Gaffney, L.P. (Leuven U. ; Liverpool U.) ; Robinson, A.P. (York U., England ; Manchester U.) ; Jenkins, D.G. (York U., England) ; Andreyev, A.N. (Leuven U. ; York U., England ; JAEA, Ibaraki) ; Bender, M. (CENBG, Gradignan) ; Blazhev, A. (Cologne U.) ; Bree, N. (Leuven U.) ; Bruyneel, B. (Cologne U.) ; Butler, P.A. (Liverpool U.) ; Cocolios, T.E. (CERN ; Manchester U.) et al.
Background: Shape coexistence in heavy nuclei poses a strong challenge to state-of-the-art nuclear models, where several competing shape minima are found close to the ground state. A classic region for investigating this phenomenon is in the region around $Z=82$ and the neutron mid-shell at $N=104$. [...]
arXiv:1503.03245.-
2015-06-22 - 11 p.
- Published in : Phys. Rev. C 91 (2015) 064313
External link: Preprint
|
|
8.
|
Characterization of the shape-staggering effect in mercury nuclei
/ Marsh, B A (CERN) ; Day Goodacre, T (CERN ; Manchester U.) ; Sels, S (Leuven U.) ; Tsunoda, Y (Tokyo U., CNS) ; Andel, B (Comenius U.) ; Andreyev, A N (York U., England ; JAEA, Ibaraki) ; Althubiti, N A (Manchester U.) ; Atanasov, D (Heidelberg, Max Planck Inst.) ; Barzakh, A E (St. Petersburg, INP) ; Billowes, J (Manchester U.) et al.
In rare cases, the removal of a single proton (Z) or neutron (N) from an atomic nucleus leads to a dramatic shape change. These instances are crucial for understanding the components of the nuclear interactions that drive deformation. [...]
2018 - 6 p.
- Published in : Nature Phys. 14 (2018) 1163-1167
Fulltext: PDF; External link: INTERACTIONS
|
|
9.
|
Shape Coexistence in the Neutron-Deficient Even-Even $^{182-188}$Hg Isotopes Studied via Coulomb Excitation
/ Bree, N (KU Leuven, Dept. Phys. Astron.) ; Wrzosek-Lipska, K (KU Leuven, Dept. Phys. Astron.) ; Petts, A (U. Liverpool (main)) ; Andreyev, A (KU Leuven, Dept. Phys. Astron.) ; Bastin, B (KU Leuven, Dept. Phys. Astron. ; GANIL) ; Bender, M (CENBG, Gradignan) ; Blazhev, A (Cologne U.) ; Bruyneel, B (Cologne U.) ; Butler, P A (U. Liverpool (main)) ; Butterworth, J et al.
Coulomb-excitation experiments to study electromagnetic properties of radioactive even-even Hg isotopes were performed with 2.85 MeV/nucleon mercury beams from REX-ISOLDE. Magnitudes and relative signs of the reduced E2 matrix elements that couple the ground state and low-lying excited states in Hg182-188 were extracted. [...]
2014 - 5 p.
- Published in : Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014) 162701
|
|
10.
|
Collective 2$^{+1}$ excitations in$^{206}$Po and$^{208,210}$Rn
/ Grahn, T (Jyvaskyla U. ; Helsinki Inst. of Phys.) ; Pakarinen, J (Jyvaskyla U. ; Helsinki Inst. of Phys. ; CERN) ; Jokiniemi, L (Jyvaskyla U.) ; Albers, M (Cologne U.) ; Auranen, K (Jyvaskyla U. ; Helsinki Inst. of Phys.) ; Bauer, C (Darmstadt, Tech. Hochsch.) ; Bernards, C (Yale U.) ; Blazhev, A (Cologne U.) ; Butler, P A (Liverpool U.) ; Bönig, S (Darmstadt, Tech. Hochsch.) et al.
In the present study, $B(E2, 2^{+1}\rightarrow 0^{+1})$ values have been measured in the$^{208,210}$Rn and$^{206}$Po nuclei through Coulomb excitation of re-accelerated radioactive beams in inverse kinematics at CERN-ISOLDE. These nuclei have been proposed to lie in, or at the boundary of the region where the seniority scheme should persist. [...]
2016
- Published in : Eur. Phys. J. A 52 (2016) 340
|
|