Microsecond Isomer at the N=20 Island of Shape Inversion Observed at FRIB
Microsecond Isomer at the N=20 Island of Shape Inversion Observed at FRIB
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FRIB 观测到的 N=20 形状反转岛的微秒异构体
DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.130.242501
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Liddick, S. N.
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作者:
Gray, T. J.;Allmond, J. M.;Xu, Z.;King, T. T.;Lubna, R. S.;Crawford, H. L.;Tripathi, V.;Crider, B. P.;Grzywacz, R.;Liddick, S. N.
Excited-state spectroscopy from the first experiment at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is reported. Aisomer was observed with the FRIB Decay Station initiator (FDSi) through a cascade of 224- and 401-keVrays in coincidence withnuclei. This is the only known microsecond isomer () in the region. This nucleus is at the heart of theisland of shape inversion and is at the crossroads of the spherical shell-model, deformed shell-model, andab initiotheories. It can be represented as the coupling of a proton hole and neutron particle to,. This odd-odd coupling and isomer formation provides a sensitive measure of the underlying shape degrees of freedom of, where the onset of spherical-to-deformed shape inversion begins with a low-lying deformedstate at 885 keV and a low-lying shape-coexistingstate at 1058 keV. We suggest two possible explanations for the 625-keV isomer in: aspherical shape isomer that decays byor adeformed spin isomer that decays by. The present results and calculations are most consistent with the latter, indicating that the low-lying states are dominated by deformation.