1. $\beta$-Decay Half-Lives of 55 Neutron-Rich Isotopes beyond the N=82 Shell Gap
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Wu, J., Nishimura, S., Möller, P., Mumpower, M. R., Lozeva, R., Moon, C. B., Odahara, A., Baba, H., Browne, F., Daido, R., Doornenbal, P., Fang, Y. F., Haroon, M., Isobe, T., Jung, H. S., Lorusso, G., Moon, B., Patel, Z., Rice, S., Sakurai, H., Shimizu, Y., Sinclair, L., Söderström, P. -A., Sumikama, T., Watanabe, H., Xu, Z. Y., Yagi, A., Yokoyama, R., Ahn, D. S., Garrote, F. L. Bello, Daugas, J. M., Didierjean, F., Fukuda, N., Inabe, N., Ishigaki, T., Kameda, D., Kojouharov, I., Komatsubara, T., Kubo, T., Kurz, N., Kwon, K. Y., Morimoto, S., Murai, D., Nishibata, H., Schaffner, H., Sprouse, T. M., Suzuki, H., Takeda, H., Tanaka, M., Tshoo, K., and Wakabayashi, Y.
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The $\beta$-decay half-lives of 55 neutron-rich nuclei $^{134-139}$Sn, $^{134-142}$Sb, $^{137-144}$Te, $^{140-146}$I, $^{142-148}$Xe, $^{145-151}$Cs, $^{148-153}$Ba, $^{151-155}$La were measured at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) employing the projectile fission fragments of $^{238}$U. The nuclear level structure, which relates to deformation, has a large effect on the half-lives. The impact of newly-measured half-lives on modeling the astrophysical origin of the heavy elements is studied in the context of $r$ process nucleosynthesis. For a wide variety of astrophysical conditions, including those in which fission recycling occurs, the half-lives have an important local impact on the second ($A$ $\approx$ 130) peak.
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- 2020
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