Conveners
W1-4 Nuclear Structure (DNP) | Structure nucléaire (DPN)
- Krzysztof Starosta (SFU)
Understanding nuclear structure near $^{78}$Ni is crucial to infer how chemical elements originate in the Universe. State-of-the-art shell model calculations agree with observations from recent experiments regarding the persistence of the N=50 shell closure in neutron-rich nuclei. However, how collectivity manifests and evolves in this region of the Segrè chart is still an open question,...
One of the foremost goals of nuclear physics is to provide an understanding of how nuclei are assembled from the basic constituent building blocks of protons and neutrons. Previous studies have attempted to achieve this by observing the excitations of nuclei under fine tuned experimental conditions with the most advanced detectors available on the planet. Nevertheless, this initiative...
Neutron rich Mg isotopes far from stability belong to the island of inversion, a region where the configuration of single-particle nucleon states becomes inverted with respect to the predicted ordering of the spherical shell model. Nuclei in this region also exhibit collective behaviour in which multiple particle interactions play a significant role in nuclear wavefunctions and transitions....
At TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator centre, the TIGRESS Integrated Plunger (TIP) and its configurable detector systems have been used for charged-particle tagging and light-ion identification in Doppler-shift lifetime measurements using gamma-ray spectroscopy with the TIGRESS array of HPGe detectors. An experiment using these devices to measure the lifetime of the $2^+_1$ state of...
For many rare isotope experiments it is important to know what isotopic species are being produced and their relative abundances. To this end, TRIUMF’s Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear science (TITAN) was used in the commissioning of a new proton-to-neutron (P2N) converter target at TRIUMF. To determine relative rates of species in the produced rare isotope beam the TITAN multi-reflection...
