1. Population of the 2(ms)(+) mixed-symmetry state of Ba-140 with the alpha-transfer reaction
- Author
-
Stahl, C., Leske, J., Bauer, C., Bazzacco, D., Farnea, E., Gottardo, A., John, P. R., Michelagnoli, C., Pietralla, N., Reese, M., Sahin, E., Birkenbach, B., Bracco, A., Crespi, F. C. L., Angelis, G., Desesquelles, P., Eberth, J., Gadea, A., Goergen, A., Grebosz, J., Hess, H., Jolie, J., Jungclaus, A., Wolfram KORTEN, Lenzi, S. M., Lunardi, S., Menegazzo, R., Mengoni, D., Modamio, V., Napoli, D. R., Pullia, A., Quintana, B., Recchia, F., Reiter, P., Rosso, D., Salsac, M. D., Soderstrom, P. A., Stezowski, O., Theisen, Ch, Ur, C. A., Valiente-Dobon, J. J., Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM SNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Univ. Paris-Sud, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Subjects
CE-142 ,[PHYS]Physics [physics] ,NUCLEI ,Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics ,INELASTIC NEUTRON-SCATTERING ,ND-144 ,Atom- och molekylfysik och optik ,INTERACTING-BOSON MODEL ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,PROTON ,STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS - Abstract
International audience; Background: Identification of proton-neutron mixed-symmetric one-quadrupole phonon excitations (the 2(ms)(+) states) of atomic nuclei provides information on the isovector part of the residual nucleon-nucleon interaction. It was predicted that the 2(ms)(+) state of particular nuclei close to the U(5) limit of the interacting boson model, in particular Ba-140, should be considerably populated by alpha-transfer reactions [C. E. Alonso et al., Phys. Rev. C 78, 017301 (2008)].Purpose: We aim at the identification of the 2(ms)(+) mixed-symmetry state (MSS) of radioactive Ba-140 and investigate its population by the alpha-transfer reaction as a suitable tool to selectively populate MSSs and as a potential new signature for its mixed-symmetric character.Method: A gamma-ray spectroscopy experiment was performed in inverse kinematics in order to populate the 2(ms)(+) state of Ba-140 by alpha-transfer from a C-nat target on Xe-136 beam ions. The population of the candidate for the 2(ms)(+) state of Ba-140 was measured relative to the population of the 2(1)(+) state.Results: The candidate for the 2(ms)(+) state of Ba-140 was populated by a transfer three times weaker than predicted. Another 2(+) state that can be ruled out as the MSS was in turn as strongly populated by the a transfer as predicted for the MSS.Conclusions: The relative population of 2(+) states by alpha-transfer cannot serve as a new signature for MSSs, since other 2(+) states are also strongly populated. Nevertheless, the substantial population of the MSS candidate of Ba-140 by alpha transfer qualifies this type of reaction as suitable tool to excite MSSs and study their electromagnetic decay properties.
- Published
- 2015
- Full Text
- View/download PDF