1. Probing the Z = 6 spin-orbit shell gap with (p,2p) quasi-free scattering reactions
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A. Henriques, J. S. Winfield, Thomas Nilsson, Rene Reifarth, M. Heine, E. Cravo, L. M. Fraile, Håkan T Johansson, O. Sorlin, L. Chulkov, W. N. Catford, A. Revel, J. Marganiec-Gałązka, Pavel Golubev, H. Scheit, S. Beceiro-Novo, Joakim Cederkäll, R. Gernhäuser, Carlos A. Bertulani, Y. Togano, T. Le Bleis, D. Cortina-Gil, L. Atar, G. L. Wilson, S. Pietri, F. Farinon, Kai Zuber, N. Kurz, Andreas Zilges, V. Volkov, M. Heil, C. Langer, A. Kelic-Heil, R. Plag, Catherine Rigollet, J. Enders, Iris Dillmann, U. Datta Pramanik, Jorge Machado, H. Alvarez-Pol, I. Syndikus, A. O. Macchiavelli, Marina Petri, D. Yakorev, M. Holl, Enrique Casarejos, G. Ribeiro, Mikhail V. Zhukov, Stefanos Paschalis, María José García Borge, Marine Vandebrouck, Deniz Savran, V. Panin, Björn Jonson, Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki, Philip Woods, Ángel Perea, C. Wheldon, R. Crespo, Thomas Aumann, Hans Geissel, Z. Elekes, Andreas Martin Heinz, J. M. Boillos, B. A. Brown, D. Galaviz, T. Kröll, S. Chakraborty, K. Göbel, Enrique Nácher, H. Weick, Rituparna Kanungo, P. Díaz Fernández, K. Boretzky, M. Caamaño, Anisur Rahaman, C. Caesar, J. Benlliure, F. Wamers, D. Rossi, Haik Simon, Olof Tengblad, C. Nociforo, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-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), R$^3$B, Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groni, Research unit Nuclear & Hadron Physics, Royal Society (UK), Department of Energy (US), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), State of Hesse, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Helmholtz Association, European Young Investigator Awards, Swedish Research Council, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Xunta de Galicia, German Research Foundation, National Science Foundation (US), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-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)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Quasi-free scattering reactions ,Field (physics) ,Proton ,Nuclear Theory ,Shell (structure) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Shell evolution ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,01 natural sciences ,Atomic ,Nuclear physics ,Magic number (programming) ,Particle and Plasma Physics ,0103 physical sciences ,Neutron ,Nuclear ,ddc:530 ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,010306 general physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,Mathematical Physics ,Spin-½ ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Scattering ,Molecular ,Spin-orbit splitting ,Nuclear & Particles Physics ,lcsh:QC1-999 ,3. Good health ,Valley of stability ,Tensor force ,Magic numbers ,Física nuclear ,lcsh:Physics ,Astronomical and Space Sciences ,Exotic nuclei - Abstract
9 pags., 5 figs., 2 tabs., The evolution of the traditional nuclear magic numbers away from the valley of stability is an active field of research. Experimental efforts focus on providing key spectroscopic information that will shed light into the structure of exotic nuclei and understanding the driving mechanism behind the shell evolution. In this work, we investigate the Z=6 spin-orbit shell gap towards the neutron dripline. To do so, we employed NA(p,2p)CA−1 quasi-free scattering reactions to measure the proton component of the 2 state of C. The experimental findings support the notion of a moderate reduction of the proton 1p−1p spin-orbit splitting, at variance to recent claims for a prevalent Z=6 magic number towards the neutron dripline., This work was supported by the Royal Society award UF150476, UK STFC awards ST/M006433/1 and ST/P003885/1, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, contract No. DE-AC02- 05CH11231 (LBNL), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF projects 05P15RDFN1, 05P15WOFNA and 05P19RDFN1), the GSI-TU Darmstadt cooperation agreement, the State of Hesse through the LOEWE center HIC for FAIR, the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft through the graduate school HGS-HIRe and Young Investigators Grants, and the Swedish Research Council under contract number 621-2011-5324. This work was also supported by the Spanish research grants (Ministerio Ciencia e Innovación), FPA2015-64969-P, FPA2015-69640-C2-1-P, FPA2017- 87568-P, PGC2018-099746-B-C21, RTI2018-098868-B-I00, Undidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu under project MDM-2016.0692, and the Xunta de Galicia research grant GRC ED431C 2017/54. This work was partly supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - Project-ID 279384907 - SFB 1245. C.A.B. acknowledges support from the U.S. NSF Grant No. 1415656, and U.S. DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-08ER41533.
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- 2020