1. Charge radii, moments and masses of mercury isotopes across the N = 126 shell closure
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Goodacre, T. Day, Afanasjev, A. V., Barzakh, A. E., Nies, L., Marsh, B. A., Sels, S., Perera, U. C., Ring, P., Wienholtz, F., Andreyev, A. N., Van Duppen, P., Althubiti, N. A., Andel, B., Atanasov, D., Augusto, R. S., Billowes, J., Blaum, K., Cocolios, T. E., Cubiss, J. G., Farooq-Smith, G. J., Fedorov, D. V., Fedosseev, V. N., Flanagan, K. T., Gaffney, L. P., Ghys, L., Gottberg, A., Huyse, M., Kreim, S., Kunz, P., Lunney, D., Lynch, K. M., Manea, V., Palenzuela, Y. Martinez, Medonca, T. M., Molkanov, P. L., Mougeot, M., Ramos, J. P., Rosenbusch, M., Rossel, R. E., Rothe, S., Schweikhard, L., Seliverstov, M. D., Spagnoletti, P., Van Beveren, C., Veinhard, M., Verstraelen, E., Welker, A., Wendt, K., Wolf, R. N., Zadvornaya, A., and Zuber, K.
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Nuclear Experiment ,Nuclear Theory - Abstract
Combining laser spectroscopy in a Versatile Arc Discharge and Laser Ion Source, with Penning-trap mass spectrometry at the CERN-ISOLDE facility, this work reports on mean-square charge radii of neutron-rich mercury isotopes across the $N = 126$ shell closure, the electromagnetic moments of $^{207}$Hg and more precise mass values of $^{206-208}$Hg. The odd-even staggering (OES) of the mean square charge radii and the kink at $N = 126$ are analyzed within the framework of covariant density functional theory (CDFT), with comparisons between different functionals to investigate the dependence of the results on the underlying single-particle structure. The observed features are defined predominantly in the particle-hole channel in CDFT, since both are present in the calculations without pairing. However, the magnitude of the kink is still affected by the occupation of the $1i_{11/2}$ and $2g_{9/2}$ orbitals with a dependence on the relative energies as well as pairing., Comment: 20 pages, 12 figures, Phys. Rev. C in press
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- 2021
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