Speaker
Bruno Olaizola
(CERN)
Description
Proton emission is, a priori, a contradictory decay process in neutron-rich nuclei that move the system away from the Valley of Stability instead of closer to it. However, for a handful of nuclei the last neutron is so weakly bound that the energy window for this exotic decay mode is open. These are the so-called halo nuclei, since the last nucleon(s) orbit so far away from the core that can be considered quasi-free. In this talk I will explain the experimental attempts to observe this elusive process and understand the possible mechanisms that enable it.
Author
Bruno Olaizola
(CERN)
