Guastalla, Giulia (2014)
Shell structure in the vicinity of the doubly magic 100Sn via Coulomb excitation at PreSPEC.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
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Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Shell structure in the vicinity of the doubly magic 100Sn via Coulomb excitation at PreSPEC | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Pietralla, Dr.Dr.h.c. Norbert ; Aumann, Dr. Thomas | ||||
Date: | 5 December 2014 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 14 November 2014 | ||||
Abstract: | The PreSPEC setup in combination with the high intensity primary beams available at GSI provided unique opportunities for the key nuclear structure studies on exotic nuclei. The experiment performed on the neutron deficient 104Sn aimed to deduce the reduced transition probability of the first excited 2+ state quantified by the B(E2; 0+ → 2+) value. This result is the central point in the discussion of the evolution of nuclear structure in proximity of the doubly magic nucleus 100Sn. As 100Sn is not yet accessible for such measurements, a series of experiments have been performed for neutron-deficient Sn isotopes over the past few years. These data showed excessive ex- perimental B(E2) strength compared to shell model calculations below neutron number N=64 and they are therefore not excluding a constant or even increasing collectivity below 106Sn. Hence, the measurement of the B(E2) value in the next even-even isotope toward 100Sn, i.e. 104Sn, was a crucial step to verify the robustness of the shell gap of 100Sn. Moreover, 104Sn is the heaviest isotope of the Sn isotopic chain for which a shell model calculation without significant truncation of the valence space can be performed and therefore with this experimental value the validity of Large Scale Shell Model (LSSM) calculations could be tested. As a main result of the experiment a B(E2) value corresponding to 0.10(4) e2b2 has been extracted for 104Sn. The experi- mental value showed a very good agreement with the predicted one and, despite the large error bar, it clearly established a downward trend of the B(E2) values of the Sn isotopic chain toward A=100. This implied enhanced stability of the N = Z = 50 shell closure against ph-excited quadrupole modes. However, an experiment of this kind is very challenging for several reasons. First, 104Sn lies in proximity of the proton drip line and has therefore a small production cross section, second, the high energy of the beam causes a large background which by far dominates the γ-ray spectra. To over- come the last aspect, an investigation of the components of the background has been performed taking advantage of the complexity of the PreSPEC experimental setup, which provides over 1000 parameters for the detailed analysis of the events. In addi- tion to the known radiation produced in atomic processes, evidences of interactions of high energy protons, provoking a loss of the detection efficiency and a worsening of the quality of the data, have been observed. However, from the new information obtained on the background in the PreSPEC data, several improvements of the setup are sug- gested in view of new challenging experiments in the future with HISPEC/DESPEC at the FAIR facility. |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-42853 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 530 Physics | ||||
Divisions: | 05 Department of Physics > Institute of Nuclear Physics 05 Department of Physics > Institute of Nuclear Physics > Experimentelle Kernphysik > Experimentelle Kernstruktur und S-DALINAC |
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Date Deposited: | 05 Dec 2014 07:57 | ||||
Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 16:04 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/4285 | ||||
PPN: | 386760128 | ||||
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