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1. Shape coexistence in 66Se

Author

Z. Elekes, V. Panin, T.R. Rodríguez, K. Sieja, D.S. Ahn, A. Al-Adili, H. Baba, A.I. Stefanescu, K.J. Cook, Cs. Dósa, N. Fukuda, J. Gao, J. Gibelin, K.I. Hahn, Z. Halász, S.W. Huang, T. Isobe, M.M. Juhász, D. Kim, T. Kobayashi, Y. Kondo, Z. Korkulu, A. Kurihara, I. Kuti, H. Miki, K. Miki, T. Motobayashi, H. Otsu, A. Saastamoinen, M. Sasano, H. Sato, T. Shimada, Y. Shimizu, L.G. Sobotka, I. Stefanescu, L. Stuhl, H. Suzuki, H. Takeda, Y. Togano, T. Tomai, L. Trache, D. Tudor, T. Uesaka, Y. Utsuki, H. Wang, A. Yasuda, K. Yoneda, and Y. Yoshitome

Subjects
Neutron knock-out reaction, γ-ray spectroscopy, Nuclear structure, Shape coexistence, Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

The nuclear structure of 66Se, nucleus beyond the N=Z line on the proton-rich side of the valley of stability, was investigated by the neutron knock-out reaction 67Se(12C,X)66Se using a 12C target. The analysis of the singles spectrum of the γ-rays emitted during the de-excitation of the populated low-lying excited states revealed two previously detected (927(4) keV, 1460(32) keV) and three new (744(6) keV, 1210(17) keV, 1661(23) keV) transitions. The 744-keV, the 1210-keV, and the 1460-keV transitions were found to be in coincidence with the one at 927 keV. The spectrum coincident with the 927-keV transition showed a further possible transition at 299(35) keV, which was obscured by significant atomic background in the singles spectrum. This transition might correspond to a peak previously reported at 273(5) keV that could not be assigned to 66Se unambiguously. Based on a comparison of the experimental data to theoretical calculations, four new excited states are proposed which suggest that 66Se exhibits shape coexistence.

Published
2023
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2. Intruder configurations in 29Ne at the transition into the island of inversion: Detailed structure study of 28Ne

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H. Wang, M. Yasuda, Y. Kondo, T. Nakamura, J.A. Tostevin, K. Ogata, T. Otsuka, A. Poves, N. Shimizu, K. Yoshida, N.L. Achouri, H. Al Falou, L. Atar, T. Aumann, H. Baba, K. Boretzky, C. Caesar, D. Calvet, H. Chae, N. Chiga, A. Corsi, H.L. Crawford, F. Delaunay, A. Delbart, Q. Deshayes, Zs. Dombrádi, C. Douma, Z. Elekes, P. Fallon, I. Gašparić, J.-M. Gheller, J. Gibelin, A. Gillibert, M.N. Harakeh, A. Hirayama, C.R. Hoffman, M. Holl, A. Horvat, Á. Horváth, J.W. Hwang, T. Isobe, J. Kahlbow, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, S. Kawase, S. Kim, K. Kisamori, T. Kobayashi, D. Körper, S. Koyama, I. Kuti, V. Lapoux, S. Lindberg, F.M. Marqués, S. Masuoka, J. Mayer, K. Miki, T. Murakami, M.A. Najafi, K. Nakano, N. Nakatsuka, T. Nilsson, A. Obertelli, N.A. Orr, H. Otsu, T. Ozaki, V. Panin, S. Paschalis, A. Revel, D. Rossi, A.T. Saito, T. Saito, M. Sasano, H. Sato, Y. Satou, H. Scheit, F. Schindler, P. Schrock, M. Shikata, Y. Shimizu, H. Simon, D. Sohler, O. Sorlin, L. Stuhl, S. Takeuchi, M. Tanaka, M. Thoennessen, H. Törnqvist, Y. Togano, T. Tomai, J. Tscheuschner, J. Tsubota, T. Uesaka, Z. Yang, and K. Yoneda

Subjects
In-beam γ-ray spectroscopy, Island of inversion, Shell evolution, Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

Detailed γ-ray spectroscopy of the exotic neon isotope 28Ne has been performed for the first time using the one-neutron removal reaction from 29Ne on a liquid hydrogen target at 240 MeV/nucleon. Based on an analysis of parallel momentum distributions, a level scheme with spin-parity assignments has been constructed for 28Ne and the negative-parity states are identified for the first time. The measured partial cross sections and momentum distributions reveal a significant intruder p-wave strength providing evidence of the breakdown of the N=20 and N=28 shell gaps. Only a weak, possible f-wave strength was observed to bound final states. Large-scale shell-model calculations with different effective interactions do not reproduce the large p-wave and small f-wave strength observed experimentally, indicating an ongoing challenge for a complete theoretical description of the transition into the island of inversion along the Ne isotopic chain.

Published
2023
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3. Study of spin-isospin responses of radioactive nuclei with the background-reduced neutron spectrometer, PANDORA

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N. Fukuda, Takashi Nakamura, H. Sakai, Yohei Shimizu, J. Gibelin, Makoto Yasuda, Tomotsugu Wakasa, M. Nishimura, J. Gao, Masashige Matsumoto, S. Franchoo, H. Miki, H. Kasahara, T. Harada, Masaki Sasano, D. Tudor, Toshio Kobayashi, T. Isobe, G. G. Kiss, Tomohiro Uesaka, Yasuhiro Togano, Susumu Shimoura, Atsumi Saito, N. Zhang, I. C. Stefanescu, E. Takada, Zoltán Halász, L. Trache, Yuya Kubota, D. Kim, T. Shimada, Shoko Koyama, Y. Fujino, Juzo Zenihiro, Z. Korkulu, D. Inomoto, Zaihong Yang, H. Sato, H. N. Liu, A. Spiridon, M. Miwa, H. Suzuki, L. Stuhl, V. Panin, H. Baba, Yosuke Kondo, S. Park, K. Yoneda, T. Motobayashi, Y. L. Sun, T. Tomai, I. S. Hahn, Kentaro Yako, X. Sun, A. Kurihara, M.N. Harakeh, Y. Hirai, D. S. Ahn, A. I. Chilug, Hideaki Otsu, Hiroki Yamada, Shin'ichiro Michimasa, K. Yoshida, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), 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 corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) (DPHN), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Research unit Nuclear & Hadron Physics, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), and Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Nuclear Theory, n) reactions, Inverse-kinematics (p, n) reactions, 01 natural sciences, Low-energy neutron detector, Inverse-kinematics [formula omitted] reactions, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Figure-of-Merit (FoM), Neutron detection, Neutron, 010306 general physics, Spin (physics), Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Gamow-Teller transition, DETECTOR, Real-time pulse-shape discrimination, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Spin-isospin response, Spectrometer, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Figure-of-Merit (RIM), Detector, PULSE-SHAPE DISCRIMINATION, PLASTIC SCINTILLATOR, Inverse-kinematics (p, Isospin, Ground state, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The status of a project to measure spin-isospin responses of neutron drip-line nuclei using a new low-energy neutron detector, PANDORA (Particle Analyzer Neutron Detector Of Real-time Acquisition), is reported. The performance of PANDORA was characterized by the 6He(p,n)6Li reaction in inverse kinematics at the HIMAC facility in Chiba. Observation of the strong transition to the ground state in 6Li is discussed. Preliminary results of 11Li(p,n)11Be and 14Be(p,n)14B experiments in inverse kinematics at RI Beam Factory (RIBF) of RIKEN Nishina Center are also presented including the exotic decay channel of 11Be→9Li + d. Details of the experimental setup based on PANDORA and the SAMURAI large-acceptance magnetic spectrometer, as well as the combined data-acquisition system are described. The neutron-gamma discrimination capability of PANDORA was evaluated, Figure-of-Merit (FoM) values higher than those found in the literature for similar materials were derived from experimental data.

Published
2020

4. Recent progress and developments for experimental studies with the SAMURAI spectrometer

Author

Takashi Nakamura, Yosuke Kondo, and T. Tomai

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Nebula, Spectrometer, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Nuclear Theory, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron detection, Neutron, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon, Instrumentation, Analysis method
Abstract

The large acceptance spectrometer SAMURAI plays an important role in experiments at RIBF, RIKEN for studying exotic nuclei far from β stability. We report here the investigation of the responses of the neutron detectors in the SAMURAI facility. The detection efficiency of a single neutron in the NEBULA neutron detector walls was determined to be 32.5 ± 0.3(stat) ± 0.9(syst)% by a measurement of the 7 Li ( p , n ) 7 Be ( g.s. + 0.43 MeV ) reaction at 200 MeV. The effect of multiple hits caused by a single neutron in three-wall configuration of the NeuLAND demonstrator and NEBULA have been investigated in the 29 Ne ( p , 2 p ) reaction at around 210 MeV/nucleon and analysis method has been developed enabling two or more neutron coincidence measurements. A simulation study for single and four neutron detection is reported. Finally, other recent progress and future perspectives are presented.

Published
2020

5. Observation of a correlated free four-neutron system

Author

M. Duer, T. Aumann, R. Gernhäuser, V. Panin, S. Paschalis, D. M. Rossi, N. L. Achouri, D. Ahn, H. Baba, C. A. Bertulani, M. Böhmer, K. Boretzky, C. Caesar, N. Chiga, A. Corsi, D. Cortina-Gil, C. A. Douma, F. Dufter, Z. Elekes, J. Feng, B. Fernández-Domínguez, U. Forsberg, N. Fukuda, I. Gasparic, Z. Ge, J. M. Gheller, J. Gibelin, A. Gillibert, K. I. Hahn, Z. Halász, M. N. Harakeh, A. Hirayama, M. Holl, N. Inabe, T. Isobe, J. Kahlbow, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, D. Kim, S. Kim, T. Kobayashi, Y. Kondo, D. Körper, P. Koseoglou, Y. Kubota, I. Kuti, P. J. Li, C. Lehr, S. Lindberg, Y. Liu, F. M. Marqués, S. Masuoka, M. Matsumoto, J. Mayer, K. Miki, B. Monteagudo, T. Nakamura, T. Nilsson, A. Obertelli, N. A. Orr, H. Otsu, S. Y. Park, M. Parlog, P. M. Potlog, S. Reichert, A. Revel, A. T. Saito, M. Sasano, H. Scheit, F. Schindler, S. Shimoura, H. Simon, L. Stuhl, H. Suzuki, D. Symochko, H. Takeda, J. Tanaka, Y. Togano, T. Tomai, H. T. Törnqvist, J. Tscheuschner, T. Uesaka, V. Wagner, H. Yamada, B. Yang, L. Yang, Z. H. Yang, M. Yasuda, K. Yoneda, L. Zanetti, J. Zenihiro, M. V. Zhukov, Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Research unit Nuclear & Hadron Physics, and Nuclear Energy

Subjects
Multidisciplinary, Nuclear Force, Nuclear Structure, Tetraneutron, Reactions with Radioactive Beams, Physics, ddc:500, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]
Abstract

Nature 606(7915), 678 - 682 (2022). doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04827-6, Published by Nature Publ. Group, London [u.a.]

Published
2022

6. Experimental Study of $^{4}n$ by Directly Detecting the Decay Neutrons

Author

Atsumi Saito, Yohei Shimizu, H. Törnqvist, B. Monteagudo, T. Isobe, M. Caamaño, H. Scheit, S. Kiyotake, J. Tscheuschner, M. L. Cortés, F. M. Marqués, N. Fukuda, N. A. Orr, J. M. Gheller, A. Gillibert, A. Matta, K. Yoneda, L. Stuhl, Z. Elekes, I. Kuti, V. Wagner, M. Miwa, Z. Halász, A. Obertelli, S. Kim, A. Revel, L. Zanetti, N. L. Achouri, S. Takeuchi, F. Dufter, C. A. Douma, S. Masuoka, Stefanos Paschalis, R. Gernhäuser, S. Chen, Nobuyuki Chiga, S. Storck, T. Shimada, M.N. Harakeh, P. Koseoglou, T. Harada, B. Yang, M. Matsumoto, H. Takeda, D. S. Ahn, Yuya Kubota, H. Yamada, Yasuhiro Togano, A. Hirayama, Y. Yasuda, T. Fujino, D. M. Rossi, Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki, J. Tanaka, M. Böhmer, N. Inabe, Didier Beaumel, S. Park, Thomas Aumann, H. Baba, Tomohiro Uesaka, F. Schindler, J. Feng, Zaihong Yang, I. Murray, Julien Gibelin, K. Boretzky, S. W. Huang, B. Fernández-Domínguez, S. Reichert, Takashi Nakamura, Yu-xin Liu, K. Wimmer, Yukie Maeda, L. Yang, H. Sato, E. Tronchin, P. Doornenbal, Dmytro Symochko, D. Cortina, J. Kahlbow, S. Shimoura, H. Suzuki, Hideaki Otsu, M. Potlog, P. J. Li, J. Mayer, H. Miki, Masaki Sasano, Toshio Kobayashi, Z. Ge, D. Kim, Juzo Zenihiro, T. Tomai, I. Stefan, M. Parlog, H. Simon, V. Panin, Igor Gašparić, C. Lehr, Yosuke Kondo, C. Lenain, U. Forsberg, Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), 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), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Research unit Nuclear & Hadron Physics, and Nuclear Energy

Subjects
Nuclear structure and force, tetraneutron, direct reactions, radioactive beams, Physics, Nuclear physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, Tetraneutron, Neutron, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 3. Good health
Abstract

The tetraneutron has attracted the attention of nuclear physicists during the past decades, but there is still no unambiguous confirmation of its existence or non-existence. A new experiment based on $$^{8}$$ He(p, 2p) $$^{7}$$ H{t+ $$^{4}n$$ } reaction, with direct detection of the four neutrons, has been carried out at RIBF, which can hopefully help to draw a definite conclusion on the tetraneutron system.

Published
2021

7. Extending the Southern Shore of the Island of Inversion to F28

Author

J. Mayer, Noritsugu Nakatsuka, Michael Thoennessen, A. Gillibert, Ákos Horváth, Q. Deshayes, Yosuke Kondo, J. Tscheuschner, Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki, J. M. Gheller, István Kuti, M. Shikata, Thomas Aumann, C. Caesar, J. Tsubota, A. Revel, N. L. Achouri, W. He, Z. Elekes, Calem Hoffman, Shoichiro Kawase, Heiko Scheit, J. Kahlbow, Masahiro Yasuda, H. Simon, H. Sato, K. Yoneda, A. Horvat, K. Nakano, Igor Gašparić, T. Ozaki, H. Chae, J. A. Tostevin, L. Stuhl, K. Miki, F. de Oliveira Santos, H. L. Crawford, D. Calvet, Stefanos Paschalis, S. Masuoka, T. Isobe, A. Obertelli, Tomoki Saito, Momoko Tanaka, N. A. Orr, Shoko Koyama, Nobuyuki Chiga, L. Atar, Y. Satou, P. Fallon, Atsumi Saito, Zsolt Dombrádi, H. Törnqvist, Jongwon Hwang, A. Corsi, Julien Gibelin, K. Boretzky, A. Delbart, D. M. Rossi, H. Baba, Masaki Sasano, D. Sohler, V. Lapoux, M. A. Najafi, S. K. Kim, A. Hirayama, H. Al Falou, K. Kisamori, T. Tomai, V. Panin, P. Schrock, Takashi Nakamura, Yasuhiro Togano, M.N. Harakeh, M. Holl, Zaihong Yang, F. Nowacki, T. Kobayashi, Cenxi Yuan, D. Körper, Tomohiro Uesaka, Thomas Nilsson, C. A. Douma, Simon Lindberg, Hideaki Otsu, O. Sorlin, T. Murakami, Yohei Shimizu, Fabia Schindler, Franck Delaunay, F. M. Marqués, and Satoshi Takeuchi

Subjects
Physics, Proton, Island of inversion, General Physics and Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Momentum, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, Atomic physics, 010306 general physics, Nucleon, Spectroscopy, Ground state
Abstract

Detailed spectroscopy of the neutron-unbound nucleus 28 F has been performed for the first time following proton/neutron removal from 29 Ne / 29 F beams at energies around 230 MeV / nucleon . The invariant-mass spectra were reconstructed for both the 27 F ( * ) + n and 26 F ( * ) + 2 n coincidences and revealed a series of well-defined resonances. A near-threshold state was observed in both reactions and is identified as the 28 F ground state, with S n ( 28 F ) = − 199 ( 6 ) keV , while analysis of the 2 n decay channel allowed a considerably improved S n ( 27 F ) = 1620 ( 60 ) keV to be deduced. Comparison with shell-model predictions and eikonal-model reaction calculations have allowed spin-parity assignments to be proposed for some of the lower-lying levels of 28 F . Importantly, in the case of the ground state, the reconstructed 27 F + n momentum distribution following neutron removal from 29 F indicates that it arises mainly from the 1 p 3 / 2 neutron intruder configuration. This demonstrates that the island of inversion around N = 20 includes 28 F , and most probably 29 F , and suggests that 28 O is not doubly magic.

Published
2020

8. Lifetime measurement of the $^{26}0 g.s.$ at SAMURAI

Author

Hiroyuki Takeda, Takashi Nakamura, Hideaki Otsu, Olivier Sorlin, Masaki Sasano, Zaihong Yang, I. Murray, D. M. Rossi, Yuya Kubota, A. Hirayama, Thomas Aumann, Makoto Yasuda, K. I. Hahn, L. Atar, H. Baba, Sonja Storck, S. Choi, Z. Halász, Yohei Shimizu, C. Caesar, L. Stuhl, H. Scheit, C. Lehr, Nobuyuki Chiga, Yasuhiro Togano, Thomas Nilsson, Hans Törnqvist, Z. Elekes, D. Körper, M. Matsumoto, M. L. Cortés, Naohito Inabe, Yosuke Kondo, T. Murakami, D. S. Ahn, K. Yoneda, Marina Petri, Atsumi Saito, T. Tomai, Tomohiro Uesaka, M. Parlog, Simon Lindberg, V. Panin, M. Marques, D. Cortina-Gil, T. Isobe, H. Chae, S. K. Kim, István Kuti, Jongwon Hwang, Herbert A. Simon, P. Schrock, Naoki Fukuda, T. Kobayashi, J. Kahlbow, H. Suzuki, D. Sohler, H. Yamada, I. Syndikus, K. Boretzky, Q. Deshayes, P. Doornenbal, I. Gaparic, Stefanos Paschalis, Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), SAMURAI20, Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)

Subjects
Physics, Superconductivity, History, Radionuclide, Spectrum analyzer, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Computer Science Applications, Education, Nuclear physics, Stack (abstract data type), 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Accelerator Physics, ddc:530, Neutron, Radio isotopes, 010306 general physics, Ground state, Nuclear Experiment, Beam (structure)
Abstract

27th International Nuclear Physics Conference, INPC2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 29 Jul 2019 - 2 Aug 2019; Journal of physics / Conference series 1643(1), 012106 (2020). doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1643/1/012106, Published by IOP Publ., Bristol

Published
2020
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9. Experimental study of 4 n with 8He(p,2p) reaction

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M. Böhmer, Masaki Sasano, S. Reichert, Naohito Inabe, S. Chen, T. Shimada, M. Matsumoto, Susumu Shimoura, I. Stefan, J. Kahlbow, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, T. Harada, D. Symochko, István Kuti, S. W. Huang, D. Cortina, Tomohiro Uesaka, Z. Ge, N. L. Achouri, Yosuke Kondo, Hiroyuki Takeda, K. Yoneda, B. Fernández-Domínguez, U. Forsberg, Z. Elekes, Roman Gernhäuser, Y. Yasuda, H. Suzuki, Yohei Shimizu, D. Beaumel, D. Kim, C. A. Douma, Yukie Maeda, A. Hirayama, J. M. Gheller, Heiko Scheit, F. Dufter, T. Elidiano, Yasuhiro Togano, M. L. Cortés, M. Potlog, Nobuyuki Chiga, P. J. Li, Juzo Zenihiro, B. Yang, T. Isobe, M. Caamaño, Thomas Aumann, H. T. Törnqvsit, A. Gillibert, D. S. Ahn, F. Schindler, M.N. Harakeh, J. Feng, J. Tscheuschner, S. Kim, Atsumi Saito, L. Zanetti, P. Koseoglou, V. Wagner, M. Parlog, B. M. Godoy, N. Orr, Takashi Nakamura, Yu-xin Liu, J. Mayer, A. Obertelli, Yuya Kubota, Hideaki Otsu, S. Storck, S. Masuoka, K. Boretzky, Kathrin Wimmer, H. Miki, T. Tomai, F. M. Marqués, V. Panin, P. Doornenbal, Stefanos Paschalis, L. Yang, Satoshi Takeuchi, M. A. Knösel, Igor Gašparić, T. Kobayashi, C. Lehr, H. Yang, C. Lenain, M. Miwa, Z. Halász, A. Revel, H. Sato, T. Fujino, D. M. Rossi, H. Baba, S. Park, I. Murray, L. Stuhl, H. Yamada, J. Gibelin, J. Tanaka, Naoki Fukuda, RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, German Research Foundation, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), 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), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)

Subjects
Physics, Paper, History, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, tetraneutron, nuclear force, proton knock-out, radioactive beams, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Computer Science Applications, Education, ddc, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Tetraneutron, Neutron, ddc:530, 010306 general physics
Abstract

7 pags., 3 figs. -- 27th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC2019), The tetraneutron has attracted the attention of nuclear physicists during the past decades, but there is still no unambiguous confirmation of its existence or nonexistence. A new experiment based on 8 He(p,2p)7H{t+4n} reaction, with direct detection of the four neutrons, has been carried out at RIBF, which can hopefully help to draw a definite conclusion on the tetraneutron system., We acknowledge the support of the RIBF accelerator staff and the BigRIPS team for providing the high-quality beam. Z. H. Yang acknowledges the financial support from the Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher program of RIKEN. T. Aumann acknowledges the support by DFG via SFB 1245. P. Koseoglou acknowledges the support from BMBF (NUSTAR.DA grant No.05P 15RDFN1).

Published
2020

10. Study of spin-isospin response of 11Li neutron-drip-line nucleus with PANDORA

Author

Masaki Sasano, M. Miwa, T. Kobayashi, I. C. Stefanescu, D. Tudor, Tomohiro Uesaka, T. Isobe, K. Yoneda, D. Inomoto, Zaihong Yang, M. Nishimura, L. Stuhl, H. Baba, I. S. Hahn, D. Kim, K. Yoshida, A. I. Chilug, Y. Fujino, H. Suzuki, H. Sato, Yosuke Kondo, Zoltán Halász, H. Kasahara, Kentaro Yako, Tomotsugu Wakasa, Yasuhiro Togano, G. G. Kiss, T. Motobayashi, T. Shimada, Shin'ichiro Michimasa, X. Sun, Naoki Fukuda, Juzo Zenihiro, H. N. Liu, Takashi Nakamura, S. Park, Masashige Matsumoto, H. Miki, Y. Hirai, V. Panin, Hiroki Yamada, A. Spiridon, T. Tomai, Susumu Shimoura, Y. L. Sun, D. S. Ahn, M. N. Harakeh, H. Sakai, Makoto Yasuda, A. Kurihara, Atsumi Saito, N. Zhang, L. Trache, Yuya Kubota, J. Gibelin, Yohei Shimizu, S. Franchoo, Hideaki Otsu, J. Gao, Shoko Koyama, Z. Korkulu, T. Harada, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, 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), and Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Physics, History, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Nuclear Theory, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Computer Science Applications, Education, Nuclear physics, medicine.anatomical_structure, Isospin, 0103 physical sciences, medicine, Nuclear drip line, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleus, Spin-½
Abstract

The spin-isospin responses of the 11Li drip-line nucleus has been measured. Preliminary results of the 11Li(p, n)11Be experiment in inverse kinematics at RI Beam Factory (RIBF) of RIKEN Nishina Center are presented including the observation of 1n, 2n, t, d, 2α and 6He+α decay channels of 11Be reaction product. Details of the experimental setup based on PANDORA (Particle Analyzer Neutron Detector Of Real-time Acquisition) low-energy neutron detector and the SAMURAI large-acceptance magnetic spectrometer are described.

Published
2020

11. Isotope-production cross sections of residual nuclei in proton- and deuteron-induced reactions on 93Zr at 50 MeV/u

Author

Hiroshi Suzuki, Akihiro Hirayama, Takashi Nakamura, Hideaki Otsu, Yoshiki Soudo, Pär-Anders Söderström, Pieter Doornenbal, Daisuke Suzuki, T. Tomai, D. S. Ahn, Ian Murray, Masahiro Yasuda, Shin'ichiro Michimasa, Shigeru Kubono, Yosuke Kondo, Sidong Chen, Susumu Shimoura, S. Kawakami, Shoichiro Kawase, Tadaaki Isobe, Hiromi Sato, Hiroyuki Takeda, Yasuhiro Togano, Naoki Fukuda, Yukinobu Watanabe, Ryohei Hosoda, Shunpei Koyama, Junki Suwa, Hiroki Yamada, Yukie Maeda, Hidetada Baba, Toshiyuki Sumikama, Ryo Nakajima, Koichi Yoshida, Xiaohui Sun, Atsumi Saito, Shoichiro Masuoka, Keita Nakano, Satoshi Takeuchi, Nobuyuki Chiga, Hongwei Wang, Yohei Shimizu, Takeshi Saito, K. Chikaato, Martha Liliana Cortes, T. Ozaki, Maya Takechi, Megumi Niikura, and Hiroyoshi Sakurai

Subjects
Physics, Proton, Isotope, QC1-999, Nuclear Theory, Residual, Nuclear physics, Deuterium, Incident energy, Heavy ion, Nuclear Experiment, Nucleon, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The isotope-production cross sections in p- and d-induced reactions on 93Zr at approximately 50 MeV/nucleon were measured by using the inverse-kinematics method at RIKEN RI Beam Factory. The measured data were compared with the previous experimental 93Zr + p, d at 105 and 209 MeV/nucleon data. This comparison represents that the isotopic distribution of production cross sections at 51 MeV p-induced reaction is appreciably different from those at 105 and 209 MeV. On the other hand, these three data sets show that the shape of isotopic distribution is similar in the case of the d-induced reaction. Also, the measured production cross sections were compared with the theoretical model calculations with Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS) version 3.10 in order to investigate the reproducibility of the models implemented in PHITS. The calculations well reproduced the experimental data even in such low incident energy, while several discrepancies were still seen as in the p- and d-induced reactions at 105 and 209 MeV/nucleon.

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2020

12. Study of multi-neutron systems with SAMURAI spectrometer

Author

K. Yoneda, Z. Elekes, Masaki Sasano, Heiko Scheit, Atsumi Saito, N. Inabe, I. Stefan, J. Tscheuschner, Mohsen Harakeh, Julien Gibelin, M. A. Knösel, K. Boretzky, Z. Ge, Takashi Nakamura, D. Kim, H. Sato, J. Kahlbow, Igor Gašparić, Y. Yasuda, Susumu Shimoura, T. Isobe, Juzo Zenihiro, M. Caamaño, Yosuke Kondo, S. Masuoka, H. Suzuki, A. Hirayama, S. W. Huang, C. A. Douma, B. M. Godoy, Z. Halász, H. Yamada, C. Lehr, M. Böhmer, Nobuyuki Chiga, A. Revel, N. L. Achouri, P. Koseoglou, Kathrin Wimmer, V. Wagner, N. A. Orr, M. Potlog, M. Miwa, B. Yang, A. Obertelli, T. Harada, H. T. Törnqvsit, S. Reichert, H. Miki, D. S. Ahn, T. Tomai, István Kuti, J. Mayer, J. Tanaka, S. Park, Yasuhiro Togano, M. Parlog, Naoki Fukuda, Yu-xin Liu, S. Chen, V. Panin, L. Zanetti, F. Schindler, S. Storck, T. Shimada, Tomohiro Uesaka, J. Feng, M. Matsumoto, Zaihong Yang, U. Forsberg, Roman Gernhäuser, I. Murray, F. Dufter, D. Symochko, L. Stuhl, J. M. Gheller, Hideaki Otsu, D. Beaumel, T. Kobayashi, H. Takeda, A. Gillibert, D. Cortina, P. Doornenbal, L. Yang, Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki, Satoshi Takeuchi, Thomas Aumann, Stefanos Paschalis, T. Fujino, D. M. Rossi, H. Baba, Yohei Shimizu, M. L. Cortés, F. M. Marqués, B. Fernández-Domínguez, Yuya Kubota, Yukie Maeda, S. K. Kim, P. J. Li, Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), 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), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)

Subjects
Physics, Firm conclusion, Spectrometer, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Tetraneutron, Neutron, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The tetraneutron has been drawing the attention of the nuclear physics community for decades, but a firm conclusion on its existence and properties is still far from being reached despite many experimental and theoretical efforts. New measurements have recently been performed at RIBF with the SAMURAI spectrometer by applying complementary reaction probes, which will help to pin down the properties of this four-neutron system., Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, conference proceedings of XXII International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (FB22), Caen, France, July 2018

Published
2018

13. Proton elastic scattering at 200 A MeV and high momentum transfers of 1.7–2.7 fm−1 as a probe of the nuclear matter density of 6He

Author

Yohei Shimizu, Zh Yang, Masaki Sasano, K. Yoneda, Y. Ando, T. Akieda, S. Nakai, Masanori Dozono, T. Tomai, A. Galindo-Uribarri, I. Stefan, Atsumi Saito, H. Sato, M. Yasuda, Kaori Kaki, Kenjiro Miki, A. Ni, Yuya Kubota, Yosuke Kondo, S. Leblond, Didier Beaumel, Kimiko Sekiguchi, N. Chiga, Juzo Zenihiro, A. Watanabe, Tetsuo Noro, Takashi Kobayashi, Satoshi Sakaguchi, L. Stuhl, Shoichiro Kawase, Yohei Matsuda, S. Park, Satoru Terashima, Shuichi Ota, W. Kim, T. Lokotko, V. Panin, T. Mukai, T. Wakui, B. Heffron, Kenichiro Tateishi, Tomotsugu Wakasa, Motonobu Takaki, T. Ozaki, H. Sakai, Yukie Maeda, Tomohiro Uesaka, H. Kon, Yoshiki Wada, Hideaki Otsu, T. Motobayashi, J. Yasuda, E. Milman, S. Chebotaryov, K. Taniue, A. Hirayama, H. Lee, Takashi Nakamura, Tadaaki Isobe, H. Yamada, Yasuhiro Togano, M. Assie, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), 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), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)

Subjects
Elastic scattering, Physics, Inverse kinematics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, D27 Reactions induced by unstable nuclei, General Physics and Astronomy, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Impulse (physics), Nuclear matter, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Computational physics, medicine.anatomical_structure, 0103 physical sciences, medicine, D11 Models of nuclear structure, Neutron, Halo, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleus, Order of magnitude
Abstract

International audience; Differential cross sections of p–6He elastic scattering were measured in inverse kinematics at an incident energy of 200 A MeV, covering the high momentum transfer region of 1.7–2.7 fm−1. The sensitivity of the elastic scattering at low and high momentum transfers to the density distribution was investigated quantitatively using relativistic impulse approximation calculations. In the high momentum transfer region, where the present data were taken, the differential cross section has an order of magnitude higher sensitivity to the inner part of the 6He density relative to the peripheral part (15:1). This feature makes the obtained data valuable for the deduction of the inner part of the 6He density. The data were compared to a set of calculations assuming different proton and neutron density profiles of 6He. The data are well reproduced by the calculation assuming almost the same profiles of proton and neutron densities around the center of 6He, and a proton profile reproducing the known point-proton radius of 1.94 fm. This finding is consistent with the assumption that the 6He nucleus consists of a rigid α-like core with a two-neutron halo.

Published
2018

14. Enhancement of element production by incomplete fusion reaction with weakly bound deuteron

Author

P. A. Söderström, Hiroaki Suzuki, H. Takeda, H. Sakurai, Maya Takechi, Atsumi Saito, N. Fukuda, Shoichiro Masuoka, Ryo Nakajima, I. Murray, H. Baba, Takashi Nakamura, Kenichi Yoshida, A. Hirayama, T. Ozaki, Si-Ge Chen, X. H. Sun, Y. Shimizu, Keita Nakano, Toshiyuki Sumikama, Shigeru Kubono, S. Takeuchi, Yosuke Kondo, Hideaki Otsu, Hiroki Yamada, R. Hosoda, Yukinobu Watanabe, Hirohiko Sato, Yasuhiro Togano, Shoichiro Kawase, T. Isobe, K. Chikaato, Nobuyuki Chiga, Yukie Maeda, M. L. Cortés, M. Nishimura, D. S. Ahn, Y. Soudo, H. Wang, Masahiro Yasuda, Susumu Shimoura, Daisuke Suzuki, S. Nakayama, S. Michimasa, S. Kawakami, J. Suwa, T. Saito, T. Tomai, and Shoko Koyama

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear reaction, Nuclear transmutation, Proton, Nuclear Theory, General Physics and Astronomy, Radioactive waste, lcsh:Astrophysics, lcsh:QC1-999, Nuclear physics, Deuterium, lcsh:QB460-466, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Nuclear fusion, Neutron, Nuclear Experiment, lcsh:Physics, Fusion mechanism
Abstract

Searching for effective pathways for the production of proton-rich and neutron-rich isotopes is one of the main driving forces behind experimental and theoretical nuclear reaction studies as well as for practical applications in nuclear transmutation of radioactive waste. To produce nuclei effectively, an optimal combination of reaction mechanism and energy is required. We report a study on incomplete fusion induced by deuteron, which contains one proton and one neutron with a weak binding energy and is easily broken up. This reaction study was achieved by measuring directly the cross sections for both proton and deuteron for 107Pd at 50 MeV/u via inverse kinematics technique. The results provide direct experimental evidence for the onset of a cross-section enhancement at high energy, indicating the potential for incomplete fusion induced by loosely-bound nuclei for creating proton-rich isotopes and nuclear transmutation of radioactive waste. Revealing how to effectively produce nuclei remains one of the main motivations of recent nuclear reaction and nuclear transmutation studies of radioactive waste. The authors show the enhancement of proton rich isotope production using incomplete fusion mechanism on weakly bound nuclei using the incomplete fusion mechanism by the inverse kinematics technique, in which a radioactive beam of Palladium bombards a proton/deuteron target.

Published
2018

15. Green upgrading of SPring-8 to produce stable, ultrabrilliant hard X-ray beams.

Author

Tanaka H, Watanabe T, Abe T, Azumi N, Aoki T, Dewa H, Fujita T, Fukami K, Fukui T, Hara T, Hiraiwa T, Imamura K, Inagaki T, Iwai E, Kagamihata A, Kawase M, Kida Y, Kondo C, Maesaka H, Magome T, Masaki M, Masuda T, Matsubara S, Matsui S, Ohshima T, Oishi M, Seike T, Shoji M, Soutome K, Sugimoto T, Suzuki S, Tajima M, Takano S, Tamura K, Tanaka T, Taniuchi T, Taniuchi Y, Togawa K, Tomai T, Ueda Y, Yamaguchi H, Yabashi M, and Ishikawa T

Abstract

SPring-8-II is a major upgrade project of SPring-8 that was inaugurated in October 1997 as a third-generation synchrotron radiation light source. This upgrade project aims to achieve three goals simultaneously: achievement of excellent light source performance, refurbishment of aged systems, and significant reduction in power consumption for the entire facility. A small emittance of 50 pm rad will be achieved by (1) replacing the existing double-bend lattice structure with a five-bend achromat one, (2) lowering the stored beam energy from 8 to 6 GeV, (3) increasing the horizontal damping partition number from 1 to 1.3, and (4) enhancing horizontal radiation damping by installing damping wigglers in long straight sections. The use of short-period in-vacuum undulators allows ultrabrilliant X-rays to be provided while keeping a high-energy spectral range even at the reduced electron-beam energy of 6 GeV. To reduce power consumption, the dedicated, aged injector system has been shut down and the high-performance linear accelerator of SACLA, a compact X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) facility, is used as the injector of the ring in a time-shared manner. This allows the simultaneous operation of XFEL experiments at SACLA and full/top-up injection of the electron beam into the ring. This paper overviews the concept of the SPring-8-II project, the system design of the light source and the details of the accelerator component design., (open access.)

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2024
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16. Publisher Correction: First observation of 28 O.

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Kondo Y, Achouri NL, Falou HA, Atar L, Aumann T, Baba H, Boretzky K, Caesar C, Calvet D, Chae H, Chiga N, Corsi A, Delaunay F, Delbart A, Deshayes Q, Dombrádi Z, Douma CA, Ekström A, Elekes Z, Forssén C, Gašparić I, Gheller JM, Gibelin J, Gillibert A, Hagen G, Harakeh MN, Hirayama A, Hoffman CR, Holl M, Horvat A, Horváth Á, Hwang JW, Isobe T, Jiang WG, Kahlbow J, Kalantar-Nayestanaki N, Kawase S, Kim S, Kisamori K, Kobayashi T, Körper D, Koyama S, Kuti I, Lapoux V, Lindberg S, Marqués FM, Masuoka S, Mayer J, Miki K, Murakami T, Najafi M, Nakamura T, Nakano K, Nakatsuka N, Nilsson T, Obertelli A, Ogata K, de Oliveira Santos F, Orr NA, Otsu H, Otsuka T, Ozaki T, Panin V, Papenbrock T, Paschalis S, Revel A, Rossi D, Saito AT, Saito TY, Sasano M, Sato H, Satou Y, Scheit H, Schindler F, Schrock P, Shikata M, Shimizu N, Shimizu Y, Simon H, Sohler D, Sorlin O, Stuhl L, Sun ZH, Takeuchi S, Tanaka M, Thoennessen M, Törnqvist H, Togano Y, Tomai T, Tscheuschner J, Tsubota J, Tsunoda N, Uesaka T, Utsuno Y, Vernon I, Wang H, Yang Z, Yasuda M, Yoneda K, and Yoshida S

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2023
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17. First observation of 28 O.

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Kondo Y, Achouri NL, Falou HA, Atar L, Aumann T, Baba H, Boretzky K, Caesar C, Calvet D, Chae H, Chiga N, Corsi A, Delaunay F, Delbart A, Deshayes Q, Dombrádi Z, Douma CA, Ekström A, Elekes Z, Forssén C, Gašparić I, Gheller JM, Gibelin J, Gillibert A, Hagen G, Harakeh MN, Hirayama A, Hoffman CR, Holl M, Horvat A, Horváth Á, Hwang JW, Isobe T, Jiang WG, Kahlbow J, Kalantar-Nayestanaki N, Kawase S, Kim S, Kisamori K, Kobayashi T, Körper D, Koyama S, Kuti I, Lapoux V, Lindberg S, Marqués FM, Masuoka S, Mayer J, Miki K, Murakami T, Najafi M, Nakamura T, Nakano K, Nakatsuka N, Nilsson T, Obertelli A, Ogata K, de Oliveira Santos F, Orr NA, Otsu H, Otsuka T, Ozaki T, Panin V, Papenbrock T, Paschalis S, Revel A, Rossi D, Saito AT, Saito TY, Sasano M, Sato H, Satou Y, Scheit H, Schindler F, Schrock P, Shikata M, Shimizu N, Shimizu Y, Simon H, Sohler D, Sorlin O, Stuhl L, Sun ZH, Takeuchi S, Tanaka M, Thoennessen M, Törnqvist H, Togano Y, Tomai T, Tscheuschner J, Tsubota J, Tsunoda N, Uesaka T, Utsuno Y, Vernon I, Wang H, Yang Z, Yasuda M, Yoneda K, and Yoshida S

Abstract

Subjecting a physical system to extreme conditions is one of the means often used to obtain a better understanding and deeper insight into its organization and structure. In the case of the atomic nucleus, one such approach is to investigate isotopes that have very different neutron-to-proton (N/Z) ratios than in stable nuclei. Light, neutron-rich isotopes exhibit the most asymmetric N/Z ratios and those lying beyond the limits of binding, which undergo spontaneous neutron emission and exist only as very short-lived resonances (about 10 -21  s), provide the most stringent tests of modern nuclear-structure theories. Here we report on the first observation of 28 O and 27 O through their decay into 24 O and four and three neutrons, respectively. The 28 O nucleus is of particular interest as, with the Z = 8 and N = 20 magic numbers 1,2 , it is expected in the standard shell-model picture of nuclear structure to be one of a relatively small number of so-called 'doubly magic' nuclei. Both 27 O and 28 O were found to exist as narrow, low-lying resonances and their decay energies are compared here to the results of sophisticated theoretical modelling, including a large-scale shell-model calculation and a newly developed statistical approach. In both cases, the underlying nuclear interactions were derived from effective field theories of quantum chromodynamics. Finally, it is shown that the cross-section for the production of 28 O from a 29 F beam is consistent with it not exhibiting a closed N = 20 shell structure., (© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.)

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2023
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18. Observation of a correlated free four-neutron system.

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Duer M, Aumann T, Gernhäuser R, Panin V, Paschalis S, Rossi DM, Achouri NL, Ahn D, Baba H, Bertulani CA, Böhmer M, Boretzky K, Caesar C, Chiga N, Corsi A, Cortina-Gil D, Douma CA, Dufter F, Elekes Z, Feng J, Fernández-Domínguez B, Forsberg U, Fukuda N, Gasparic I, Ge Z, Gheller JM, Gibelin J, Gillibert A, Hahn KI, Halász Z, Harakeh MN, Hirayama A, Holl M, Inabe N, Isobe T, Kahlbow J, Kalantar-Nayestanaki N, Kim D, Kim S, Kobayashi T, Kondo Y, Körper D, Koseoglou P, Kubota Y, Kuti I, Li PJ, Lehr C, Lindberg S, Liu Y, Marqués FM, Masuoka S, Matsumoto M, Mayer J, Miki K, Monteagudo B, Nakamura T, Nilsson T, Obertelli A, Orr NA, Otsu H, Park SY, Parlog M, Potlog PM, Reichert S, Revel A, Saito AT, Sasano M, Scheit H, Schindler F, Shimoura S, Simon H, Stuhl L, Suzuki H, Symochko D, Takeda H, Tanaka J, Togano Y, Tomai T, Törnqvist HT, Tscheuschner J, Uesaka T, Wagner V, Yamada H, Yang B, Yang L, Yang ZH, Yasuda M, Yoneda K, Zanetti L, Zenihiro J, and Zhukov MV

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A long-standing question in nuclear physics is whether chargeless nuclear systems can exist. To our knowledge, only neutron stars represent near-pure neutron systems, where neutrons are squeezed together by the gravitational force to very high densities. The experimental search for isolated multi-neutron systems has been an ongoing quest for several decades 1 , with a particular focus on the four-neutron system called the tetraneutron, resulting in only a few indications of its existence so far 2-4 , leaving the tetraneutron an elusive nuclear system for six decades. Here we report on the observation of a resonance-like structure near threshold in the four-neutron system that is consistent with a quasi-bound tetraneutron state existing for a very short time. The measured energy and width of this state provide a key benchmark for our understanding of the nuclear force. The use of an experimental approach based on a knockout reaction at large momentum transfer with a radioactive high-energy 8 He beam was key., (© 2022. The Author(s).)

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2022
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19. Fabrication of Liquid Scintillators Loaded with 6-Phenylhexanoic Acid-Modified ZrO 2 Nanoparticles for Observation of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay.

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Watanabe A, Magi A, Yoko A, Seong G, Tomai T, Adschiri T, Hayashi Y, Koshimizu M, Fujimoto Y, and Asai K

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The observation of neutrinoless double beta decay is an important issue in nuclear and particle physics. The development of organic liquid scintillators with high transparency and a high concentration of the target isotope would be very useful for neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. Therefore, we propose a liquid scintillator loaded with metal oxide nanoparticles containing the target isotope. In this work, 6-phenylhexanoic acid-modified ZrO 2 nanoparticles, which contain 96 Zr as the target isotope, were synthesized under sub/supercritical hydrothermal conditions. The effects of the synthesis temperature on the formation and surface modification of the nanoparticles were investigated. Performing the synthesis at 250 and 300 °C resulted in the formation of nanoparticles with smaller particle sizes and higher surface modification densities than those prepared at 350 and 400 °C. The highest modification density (3.1 ± 0.2 molecules/nm 2 ) and Zr concentration of (0.33 ± 0.04 wt.%) were obtained at 300 °C. The surface-modified ZrO 2 nanoparticles were dispersed in a toluene-based liquid scintillator. The liquid scintillator was transparent to the scintillation wavelength, and a clear scintillation peak was confirmed by X-ray-induced radioluminescence spectroscopy. In conclusion, 6-phenylhexanoic acid-modified ZrO 2 nanoparticles synthesized at 300 °C are suitable for loading in liquid scintillators.

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2021
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20. Solvent accommodation effect on dispersibility of metal oxide nanoparticle with chemisorbed organic shell.

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Tomai T, Tajima N, Kimura M, Yoko A, Seong G, and Adschiri T

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The dispersibility of nanoparticles in solvents remains difficult to predict and control. In this paper, the dispersibility of organically-modified nanoparticles in various solvents with different solvent properties and molecular sizes are investigated. The study indicates that solvent molecular size, in addition to the affinity between organic modifier and solvent molecules, affects the dispersibility of the nanoparticles. The experimental results imply that solvents with molecular size small enough can disperse nanoparticles more efficiently. In addition, based on the concept that solvent accommodation induces the enhancement of dispersibility, two approaches to improve nanoparticle dispersibility in desired solvents are proposed. One is the addition of a small amount of solvent with the right size and properties to both penetrate the modifier shell and to act as intermediate between the desired solvent and the organic modifier molecules. The other is dual-molecule modification to create additional space at modifier-shell surface for the penetration of the desired solvent molecules. The results of these approaches based on the concept of the solvent accommodation can enhance the dispersibility trends., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

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2021
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21. Rapid synthesis of defective and composition-controlled metal chalcogenide nanosheets by supercritical hydrothermal processing.

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Nakayasu Y, Bradley S, Kobayashi H, Nayuki K, Sasaki Y, Tomai T, Nann T, and Honma I

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This study presents a simple one-pot synthesis method to achieve few-layered and defective Mo(S,Se) 2 and (Mo,W)S 2 by using supercritical water with organic reducing agents from simple and less-toxic precursors. This synthesis process is expected to be suitable for preparing other various kinds of TMD solid solutions., Competing Interests: There are no conflicts of interest to declare., (This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry.)

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2019
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22. Inversion domain boundaries in MoSe 2 layers.

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Truong QD, Hung NT, Nakayasu Y, Nayuki K, Sasaki Y, Murukanahally Kempaiah D, Yin LC, Tomai T, Saito R, and Honma I

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Structural defects, including point defects, dislocation and planar defects, significantly affect the physical and chemical properties of low-dimensional materials, such as layered compounds. In particular, inversion domain boundary is an intrinsic defect surrounded by a 60° grain boundary, which significantly influences electronic transport properties. We study atomic structures of the inversion domain grain boundaries (IDBs) in layered transition metal dichalcogenides (MoSe 2 and MoS 2 ) obtained by an exfoliation method, based on the aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy observation and density functional theory (DFT) calculation. The atomic-scale observation shows that the grain boundaries consist of two different types of 4-fold ring point shared and 8-fold ring edge shared chains. The results of DFT calculations indicate that the inversion domain grain boundary behaves as a metallic one-dimensional chain embedded in the semiconducting MoSe 2 matrix with the occurrence of a new state within the band gap., Competing Interests: There is no conflicts of interest to declare., (This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry.)

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2018
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23. Exfoliated MoS 2 and MoSe 2 Nanosheets by a Supercritical Fluid Process for a Hybrid Mg-Li-Ion Battery.

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Truong QD, Kempaiah Devaraju M, Nakayasu Y, Tamura N, Sasaki Y, Tomai T, and Honma I

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The ultrathin two-dimensional nanosheets of layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted great interest as an important class of materials for fundamental research and technological applications. Solution-phase processes are highly desirable to produce a large amount of TMD nanosheets for applications in energy conversion and energy storage such as catalysis, electronics, rechargeable batteries, and capacitors. Here, we report a rapid exfoliation by supercritical fluid processing for the production of MoS 2 and MoSe 2 nanosheets. Atomic-resolution high-angle annular dark-field imaging reveals high-quality exfoliated MoS 2 and MoSe 2 nanosheets with hexagonal structures, which retain their 2H stacking sequence. The obtained nanosheets were tested for their electrochemical performance in a hybrid Mg-Li-ion battery as a proof of functionality. The MoS 2 and MoSe 2 nanosheets exhibited the specific capacities of 81 and 55 mA h g -1 , respectively, at a current rate of 20 mA g -1 ., Competing Interests: The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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2017
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24. Controlling the shape of LiCoPO₄ nanocrystals by supercritical fluid process for enhanced energy storage properties.

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Truong QD, Devaraju MK, Ganbe Y, Tomai T, and Honma I

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Lithium-ion batteries offer promising opportunities for novel energy storage systems and future application in hybrid electric vehicles or electric vehicles. Cathode materials with high energy density are required for practical application. Herein, high-voltage LiCoPO4 cathode materials with different shapes and well-developed facets such as nanorods and nanoplates with exposed {010} facets have been synthesized by a one-pot supercritical fluid (SCF) processing. The effect of different amines and their roles on the morphology-control has been investigated in detail. It was found that amine having long alkyl chain such as hexamethylenediamine played important roles to manipulate the shape of the nanocrystals by selective adsorption on the specific {010} facets. More importantly, the nanorods and nanoplates showed better electrochemical performance than that of nanoparticles which was attributed to their unique crystallographic orientation with short Li ion diffusion path. The present study emphasizes the importance of crystallographic orientation in improving the electrochemical performance of the high voltage LiCoPO4 cathode materials for Li-ion batteries.

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2014
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25. Metal-free aqueous redox capacitor via proton rocking-chair system in an organic-based couple.

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Tomai T, Mitani S, Komatsu D, Kawaguchi Y, and Honma I

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Safe and inexpensive energy storage devices with long cycle lifetimes and high power and energy densities are mandatory for the development of electrical power grids that connect with renewable energy sources. In this study, we demonstrated metal-free aqueous redox capacitors using couples comprising low-molecular-weight organic compounds. In addition to the electric double layer formation, proton insertion/extraction reactions between a couple consisting of inexpensive quinones/hydroquinones contributed to the energy storage. This energy storage mechanism, in which protons are shuttled back and forth between two electrodes upon charge and discharge, can be regarded as a proton rocking-chair system. The fabricated capacitor showed a large capacity (>20 Wh/kg), even in the applied potential range between 0-1 V, and high power capability (>5 A/g). The support of the organic compounds in nanoporous carbon facilitated the efficient use of the organic compounds with a lifetime of thousands of cycles.

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2014
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