"Safe" Coulomb excitation of Mg-30
Journal article, 2005

We report on the first radioactive beam experiment performed at the recently commissioned REX-ISOLDE facility at CERN in conjunction with the highly efficient γ spectrometer MINIBALL. Using Mg-30 ions accelerated to an energy of 2.25 MeV/u together with a thin Ni-nat target, Coulomb excitation of the first excited 2(+) states of the projectile and target nuclei well below the Coulomb barrier was observed. From the measured relative deexcitation γ-ray yields the B(E2;0(gs)(+)→ 2(1)(+)) value of Mg-30 was determined to be 241(31)e(2) fm(4). Our result is lower than values obtained at projectile fragmentation facilities using the intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation method, and confirms the theoretical conjecture that the neutron-rich magnesium isotope Mg-30 resides outside the "island of inversion."

NUCLEI

SILICON

TRANSITION

ISOTOPES

DETECTOR

COLLECTIVITY

ISOLDE

SHELL-MODEL

Author

O. Niedermaier

H. Scheit

V. Bildstein

H. Boie

J. Fitting

R. von Hahn

F. Kock

M. Lauer

U. K. Pal

H. Podlech

R. Repnow

D. Schwalm

C. Alvarez

F. Ames

G. Bollen

S. Emhofer

D. Habs

O. Kester

R. Lutter

K. Rudolph

M. Pasini

P. G. Thirolf

B. H. Wolf

J. Eberth

G. Gersch

H. Hess

P. Reiter

O. Thelen

N. Warr

D. Weisshaar

F. Aksouh

P. Van den Bergh

P. Van Duppen

M. Huyse

O. Ivanov

P. Mayet

J. Van de Walle

J. Aysto

P. A. Butler

J. Cederkall

P. Delahaye

H. O. U. Fynbo

L. M. Fraile

O. Forstner

S. Franchoo

U. Koster

Thomas Nilsson

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

M. Oinonen

T. Sieber

F. Wenander

M. Pantea

A. Richter

G. Schrieder

H. Simon

T. Behrens

R. Gernhauser

T. Kroll

R. Krucken

M. Munch

T. Davinson

J. Gerl

G. Huber

A. Hurst

J. Iwanicki

Björn Jonson

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics

P. Lieb

L. Liljeby

A. Schempp

A. Scherillo

P. Schmidt

G. Walter

Physical Review Letters

0031-9007 (ISSN) 1079-7114 (eISSN)

Vol. 94 17 172501 (artno)-

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.172501

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