Shell evolution of N = 40 isotones towards 60Ca: First spectroscopy of 62Ti

Excited states in the isotone 62Ti were populated via the 63V62Ti reaction at ∼200 MeV/nucleon at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory and studied using γ-ray spectroscopy. The energies of the and transitions, observed here for the first time, indicate a deformed 62Ti ground state. These energies ar...

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Autores: SEASTAR Collaboration, Holt, J.D., Lenzi, S.M., Menéndez Sánchez, Javier, Nowacki, F., Ogata, K., Poves, A., Rodríguez, T.R., Schwenk, A., Simonis, J., Stroberg, S.R., Yoshida, K.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/215202
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/215202
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Isòtops
Espectrometria de raigs gamma
Isotopes
Gamma ray spectrometry
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Sumario:Excited states in the isotone 62Ti were populated via the 63V62Ti reaction at ∼200 MeV/nucleon at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory and studied using γ-ray spectroscopy. The energies of the and transitions, observed here for the first time, indicate a deformed 62Ti ground state. These energies are increased compared to the neighboring 64Cr and 66Fe isotones, suggesting a small decrease of quadrupole collectivity. The present measurement is well reproduced by large-scale shell-model calculations based on effective interactions, while ab initio and beyond mean-field calculations do not yet reproduce our findings. The shell-model calculations for 62Ti show a dominant configuration with four neutrons excited across the gap. Likewise, they indicate that the island of inversion extends down to , disfavoring a possible doubly magic character of the elusive 60Ca.