Conveners
Investigation of magic numbers
- Gerda Neyens (KU Leuven)
On behalf of the COLLAPS collaboration
Collinear laser spectroscopy (CLS) has been a cornerstone of low energy nuclear physics since its conception in the 1970s, providing access to nuclear charge radii and moments of nuclear ground states and long-lived isomers. The COLLAPS setup at ISOLDE hosted the very first online CLS measurement in which the nuclear structure of barium isotopes,...
Laser spectroscopy is a powerful tool for studying fundamental nuclear properties. By observing small changes in atomic transitions, we can deduce the spins, changes in mean-squared charge radii and the electromagnetic moments of ground and isomeric states across long chains of isotopes. This allows for wide ranging studies to be conducted of how structures evolve across the nuclear...
First excited states of 130Sn, the even-even neighbour of the doubly-magic nucleus 132Sn, were populated via safe Coulomb excitation (CE) employing the recently commissioned, highly efficient MINIBALL array. The 130Sn ions were accelerated by the HIE-ISOLDE accelerator to an energy of 4.4 MeV/u and impinged onto a 206Pb target. The de-exciting 𝛾 rays from excited states of the target and...
The application of one-nucleon transfer reactions is one way to investigate nuclear structure. 68Ni is an interesting case because of the collectivity present in the region around this nucleus. In particular the neutron d5/2 orbital plays an essential role in this. One-neutron transfer was performed with a 6 MeV/u postaccelerated beam of 68Ni at ISOLDE using the Isolde Solenoidal Spectrometer...
