γ SPECTROSCOPY OF NEUTRON-RICH NUCLEI WITH A ≈ 100 PRODUCED BY CLUSTER TRANSFER REACTIONS AT REX-ISOLDE.

In this work, we present an exploratory experiment performed at REX-ISOLDE to investigate neutron-rich Sr, Y and Zr nuclei around mass A = 100 by cluster transfer reactions of radioactive ⁹⁸Rb/⁹⁸Sr beams on a ⁷Li target. The goal of the experiment is to test the potential of cluster-transfer mechanism to study the low-lying structure of neutron-rich nuclei, performing, as a first case, a γ-spectroscopy study of the structure in deformed nuclei beyond N = 60 populated, so far, only via ß decay and spontaneous fission experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]