1. Probing the limit of nuclear existence: Proton emission from 159Re
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D. T. Joss, Robert Page, A. Steer, T. Grahn, Steffen Ketelhut, S. Erturk, P. Rahkila, C. Scholey, M. Venhart, Paul Stevenson, Janne Pakarinen, Juha Uusitalo, J. Simpson, B. Gall, Paul Greenlees, Baharak Hadinia, M. Nyman, Iain Darby, Peter M. Jones, A. J. Cannon, S. Juutinen, Matti Leino, A.-P. Leppänen, Jan Sarén, Jim Al-Khalili, R. Julin, S. Eeckhaudt, Département Recherches Subatomiques (DRS-IPHC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Pakarinen, Janne -- 0000-0001-8944-8757, Darby, Iain -- 0000-0003-2091-2616, Stevenson, Paul -- 0000-0003-2645-2569, Scholey, Catherine -- 0000-0002-8743-6071, Jones, Pete -- 0000-0001-7480-6603, Grahn, Tuomas -- 0000-0002-6255-2279, Univ Liverpool, Oliver Lodge Lab, Liverpool L69 7ZE, Merseyside, England -- CCLRC, Daresbury Lab, Warrington WA4 4AD, Cheshire, England -- Univ Jyvaskyla, Dept Phys, FIN-40014 Jyvaskyla, Finland -- Univ Surrey, Dept Phys, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, England -- Nigde Univ, Fen Edebiyat Falkultesi, Fizik Bolumu, Nigde, Turkey -- Comenius Univ, Dept Nucl Phys & Biophys, Bratislava 84248 4, Slovakia -- Univ Strasbourg 1, CNRS, IN2P3, IPHC, F-67037 Strasbourg 2, France -- Royal Inst Technol, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden, and 0-Belirlenecek
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Nuclear reaction ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Si detectors ,Proton ,Nuclear Theory ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,measured E (p), (t)1 / 2 ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Nuclear physics ,Ep ,0103 physical sciences ,Enriched targets ,Neutron ,Nuclide ,Proton emission ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,106Cd at 300 MeV beam energy ,Physics ,Isotope ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,21.10.Hw ,21.10.Tg ,23.50.+z ,27.70.+q ,58Ni ,t1/2 ,NUCLEAR REACTIONS Ni-58+Cd-106 at 300 MeV beam energy ,13. Climate action ,Nuclear reactions ,Gas-filled recoil separator ,Atomic physics ,Nucleon ,Measured ,Radioactive decay - Abstract
WOS: 000240847400007, The observation of the new nuclide Re-159(75)84 provides important insights into the evolution of single-particle structure and the mass surface in heavy nuclei beyond the proton drip line. This nuclide, 26 neutrons away from the nearest stable rhenium isotope, was synthesised in the reaction Cd-106(Ni-58, p4n) and identified via its proton radioactivity using the RITU gas-filled separator and the GREAT focal-plane spectrometer. Comparisons of the measured proton energy (E-p = 1805 +/- 20 keV) and decay half-life (t(1/2) = 21 +/- 4 mu s) with values calculated using the WKB method indicate that the proton is emitted from an h(11/2) state. The implications of these results for future experimental investigations into even more proton unbound nuclei using in-flight separation techniques are considered. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved., Science and Technology Facilities Council [EP/C543157/1, EP/C015371/1, EP/C015266/1, ST/G008671/1]
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