1. Evidence for a Smooth Onset of Deformation in the Neutron-Rich Kr Isotopes
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C. Bernards, Jan Diriken, M. Pfeiffer, K. Moschner, P. Reiter, M. Rudigier, H. De Witte, Jonathan Butterworth, J. M. Daugas, D. Voulot, Iain Darby, Mark Huyse, Takaharu Otsuka, R. R. Rodríguez-Guzmán, Liam Gaffney, R. Gernhäuser, P. Van Duppen, R. Krücken, Fredrik Wenander, Vinzenz Bildstein, N. Warr, M. Zielinska, D. Mücher, T. Kröll, B. S. Nara Singh, C. Mihai, M. Seidlitz, Joakim Cederkäll, Georgi P. Georgiev, B. Bastin, P. Thöle, D. Radeck, Susan Rigby, S. Das Gupta, D. G. Jenkins, M. Albers, C. Fransen, J. Van de Walle, R. Wadsworth, Pedro Sarriguren, T. Thomas, B. Siebeck, J. Jolie, Marcus Scheck, N. Marginean, M. Hackstein, D. M. Filipescu, L. Bettermann, Janne Pakarinen, Thomas Davinson, G. S. Simpson, P. J. Napiorkowski, E. Fiori, A. Blazhev, K. Nowak, L. M. Robledo, Joonas Konki, M. Kowalczyk, R. Lutter, Herbert Hess, K. O. Zell, Kathrin Wimmer, Kosuke Nomura, M. Vermeulen, M. Cappellazzo, Stefan Heinze, J. Litzinger, D. Cline, C. Bauer, CSNSM SNO, Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), REX-ISOLDE, Research unit Nuclear & Hadron Physics, and UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica
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Quantum phase transition ,[PHYS.NUCL]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Theory [nucl-th] ,REX-ISOLDE ,Nuclear Theory ,QUANTUM PHASE-TRANSITIONS ,General Physics and Astronomy ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Context (language use) ,Coulomb excitation ,Nuclear Structure ,01 natural sciences ,REGION ,Nuclear physics ,0103 physical sciences ,Nuclear Physics - Experiment ,Neutron ,010306 general physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,DETECTOR ,INTERACTING BOSONS ,Physics ,EXCITATIONS ,COLLECTIVE NUCLEAR-STATES ,ta114 ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Krypton ,Física ,chemistry ,Excited state ,SHELL-MODEL ,Interacting boson model ,Atomic physics ,Ground state - Abstract
The neutron-rich nuclei Kr94,96 were studied via projectile Coulomb excitation at the REX-ISOLDE facility at CERN. Level energies of the first excited 2 + states and their absolute E2 transition strengths to the ground state are determined and discussed in the context of the E(21+) and B(E2;21+→01+) systematics of the krypton chain. Contrary to previously published results no sudden onset of deformation is observed. This experimental result is supported by a new proton-neutron interacting boson model calculation based on the constrained Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approach using the microscopic Gogny-D1M energy density functional. © 2012 American Physical Society., This work was supported by the BMBF under Contracts No. 06KY9136 and No. 06MT238, by ENSAR, by the DFG Cluster of Excellence Origin and Structure of the Universe, and by the grant-in-aid for scientific research for JSPS Fellows (Grant No. 217368). One of the authors (J. D.) would like to acknowledge the support of FWOVlaanderen (Belgium).
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- 2012