101. First in-beam gamma-ray study of the level structure of neutron-rich 39S
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Chapman, R., Wang, Z. M., Bouhelal, M., Haas, F., Liang, X., Azaiez, F., Behera, B. R., Burns, M., Caurier, E., Corradi, L., Curien, D., Deacon, A. N., Dombradi, Zs., Farnea, E., Fioretto, E., Gadea, A., Hodsdon, A., Ibrahim, F., Jungclaus, A., Keyes, K., Kumar, V., Lunardi, S., Marginean, N., Montagnoli, G., Napoli, D. R., Nowacki, F., Ollier, J., O'Donnell, D., Papenberg, A., Pollarolo, G., Salsac, M.-D., Scarlassara, F., Smith, J. F., Spohr, K. M., Stanoiu, M., Stefanini, A. M., Szilner, Suzana, Trotta, M., and Verney, D.
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nuclear structure ,transfer reaction ,particle-core coupling - Abstract
The neutron-rich S39 nucleus has been studied using binary grazing reactions produced by the interaction of a 215-MeV beam of S36 ions with a thin Pb208 target. The magnetic spectrometer, PRISMA, and the γ-ray array, CLARA, were used in the measurements. Gamma-ray transitions of the following energies were observed: 339, 398, 466, 705, 1517, 1656, and 1724 keV. Five of the observed transitions have been tentatively assigned to the decay of excited states with spins up to (11/2−). The results of a state-of-the-art shell-model calculation of the level scheme of S39 using the SDPF-U effective interaction are also presented. The systematic behavior of the excitation energy of the first 11/2− states in the odd-A isotopes of sulfur and argon is discussed in relation to the excitation energy of the first excited 2+ states of the adjacent even-A isotopes. The states of S39 that have the components in their wave functions corresponding to three neutrons in the 1f7/2 orbital outside the N=20 core have also been discussed within the context of the 0 ℏω shell-model calculations presented here.
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- 2016