1. Spectroscopy of 2565,67Mn: Strong coupling in the N = 40 'island of inversion'
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K. Matsui, H. Otsu, W.Q. Zhang, J.-Y. Roussé, Tadaaki Isobe, R. Lozeva, X.H. Zhou, Satoshi Takeuchi, X.Y. Liu, E. Sahin, Shunpei Koyama, P. Doornenbal, S. Franchoo, Zs. Dombradi, F. Nowacki, Shuichi Ota, C. Santamaria, A. Obertelli, A. Gottardo, Daisuke Suzuki, K. Hadynska-Klek, Jin Wu, L. X. Chung, Masaki Sasano, Ryo Taniuchi, Hiroyoshi Sakurai, Jenny Lee, K. Yoneda, Megumi Niikura, H.S. Xu, P. A. Söderström, C. Louchart, T. Motobayashi, Tomohiro Uesaka, Yuya Kubota, C. Péron, Tsuyoshi Miyazaki, H. Lu, G. Authelet, G. L. Stefan, V. Werner, B. D. Linh, F. Château, A. Delbart, J. M. Gheller, A. Gillibert, C. M. Shand, H. Wang, Z. Liu, S. Nishimura, Zs. Vajta, Philip M Walker, Masafumi Matsushita, Satoru Momiyama, M. Lettmann, F. Browne, S. M. Lenzi, Yoshiaki Shiga, Toshiyuki Sumikama, L. Olivier, E. C. Pollacco, Feng-Shou Zhang, F. Giacoppo, David Steppenbeck, V. Lapoux, T.H. Huang, Zena Patel, H. Baba, M. D. Sun, Y.H. Zhang, D. Calvet, Zhengyu Xu, Alan Peyaud, B. Ding, A. Corsi, Z. Korkulu, Y.H. Lam, and De-fu Hou
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Physics ,Coupling ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Island of inversion ,Nuclear structure ,Decoupling (cosmology) ,01 natural sciences ,Molecular physics ,Excited state ,0103 physical sciences ,Neutron ,010306 general physics ,Spectroscopy ,Line (formation) - Abstract
Excited states in 63,65,67Mn were studied via in-beam γ-ray spectroscopy following knockout reactions from 68Fe. Similar level schemes, consisting of the 11/2−, 9/2−, 7/2− and 5/2 g.s.− level sequence, connected by I→I−1 transitions, were established, the first time for 65,67Mn. Their level structures show features consistent with strongly-coupled rotational bands with K=5/2 . State-of-the-art shell-model calculations with the modified LNPS effective interaction reproduce the observed levels remarkably well and suggest the dominance of 4-particle-4-hole neutron configurations for all the states. The data on the low-lying excited states of odd-mass 53−67Mn provide a textbook example of nuclear structure evolution from weak coupling through decoupling to strong coupling along a single isotopic chain on the n-rich side of the β stability line. These results help to deepen our understanding of the N=40 “island of inversion”.
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- 2018