1. Restoration of the natural E(1/21+) - E(3/21+) energy splitting in odd-K isotopes towards N = 40
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David Steppenbeck, B. D. Linh, H. Törnqvist, Igor Gašparić, H. N. Liu, Kazuki Yoshida, Yosuke Kondo, Toshio Kobayashi, P. A. Söderström, K. Yoneda, N. Paul, Carlo Barbieri, S. Y. Park, D. M. Rossi, V. Lapoux, Donghang Yan, H. Baba, K. Moschner, Masaki Sasano, V. Werner, Yutaka Utsuno, Yoshiki Chazono, S. Wang, D. Sohler, Zaihong Yang, I. Murray, K. I. Hahn, L. Stuhl, Kathrin Wimmer, Jenny Lee, J. M. Gheller, Victor Vaquero, R.-B. Gerst, Takaharu Otsuka, F. Browne, A. Obertelli, Nobuyuki Chiga, D. Calvet, T. Isobe, Hiroyoshi Sakurai, T. Koiwai, Yuya Kubota, C. Hilaire, T. Motobayashi, F. Nowacki, F. Château, A. Delbart, C. Lehr, A. Gillibert, M. MacCormick, Julien Gibelin, A. Corsi, X. X. Xu, V. Panin, M. L. Cortés, Thomas Aumann, O. Aktas, S. Franchoo, Si-Ge Chen, L. X. Chung, L. Zanetti, A. Giganon, Francesco Raimondi, Hideaki Otsu, Hirofumi Yamada, Tomohiro Uesaka, W. Rodriguez, F. Flavigny, Yasuhiro Togano, T. Lokotko, E. Sahin, N.L. Achouri, Y.L. Sun, Takashi Nakamura, Petr Navrátil, P. Doornenbal, Thomas Duguet, V. Wagner, Satoshi Takeuchi, D. Kim, V. Somà, Masahiro Yasuda, Kazuyuki Ogata, and P. Koseoglou
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Chemical substance ,Isotope ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,SHELL model ,01 natural sciences ,Vertex (geometry) ,Ab initio quantum chemistry methods ,Excited state ,0103 physical sciences ,Atomic physics ,010306 general physics ,Nucleon ,Spectroscopy - Abstract
We report on the first γ-ray spectroscopy of 51,53K produced via the 52,54Ca(p,2p) reactions at ∼250 MeV/nucleon. Unambiguous final-state angular-momentum assignments were achieved for beam intensities down to few particles per second by using a new technique based on reaction vertex tracking combined with a thick liquid-hydrogen target. Through γ-ray spectroscopy and exclusive parallel momentum distribution analysis, 3/2+ ground states and 1/2+ first excited states in 51,53K were established quantifying the natural ordering of the 1 d 3 / 2 and 2 s 1 / 2 proton-hole states that are restored at N = 32 and 34. State-of-the-art ab initio calculations and shell-model calculations with improved phenomenological effective interactions reproduce the present data and predict consistently the increase of the E(1/2 1 + ) - E(3/2 1 + ) energy differences towards N = 40.
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- 2020
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