Quantum State Selective Decay Spectroscopy of ²¹³Ra

Beskrivning

By combining the mass resolving power of SHIPTRAP with the charged-particle-γ multicoincidence setup TASISpec [1] the decay path of the ²¹³Ra ground state has been exclusively studied and revised decay data has been obtained. In regions far from the line of β stability the preparation of isotopically clean sources and thus unambiguous decay information becomes most essential and challenging. With the aid of virtual experiments using Geant4 [2, 3], high-resolution quantum-state selective decay spectroscopy enables insight in these regions. The experimental scheme has been realized at GSI Darmstadt where a ⁴⁸Ca beam, provided by the UNIversal Linear ACcelerator (UNILAC), was impinging on a thin ¹⁷⁰Er target foil. After standard velocity filtering in the Separator for Heavy Ion reaction Products (SHIP), the nuclear ground state of ²¹³Ra was mass-selected in SHIPTRAP [4] and transferred to the TASISpec decay-station. The most resent as well as most comprehensive study of ²¹³Ra has been has been performed by Kuusiniemi et al. [5]. However, the β⁺/EC-branching of the ²¹³Ra ground state has been unchanged since the first studies nearly 50 years ago [6]. This study exemplifies the immense potential of high-resolution quantum-state selective decay spectroscopy to gain insight into nuclear structure properties.

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[4] M. Block et al., Eur. Phys. J. D 45, 39 (2007). [5] P. Kuusiniemi et al., Eur. Phys. J. A 30, 551 (2006).
[6] K. Valli, W. Treytl, and Earl K. Hyde, Phys. Rev. 161, 1284 (1967).

This work is supported in part by the Swedish Research Council (VR 2011-5253 and VR 2013-4271), the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW 2015.0021).

Period	2017 juni 27
Evenemangstitel	NUSPIN 2017: Second Workshop of the Nuclear Spectroscopy Instrumentation Network
Typ av evenemang	Workshop
Plats	Darmstadt, TysklandVisa på karta
Omfattning	Internationell