Gamma-ray spectroscopy of fission fragments with state-of-the-art techniques

S Leoni, C Michelagnoli, JN Wilson - La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento, 2022 - Springer
The paper reviews recent developments in γ-ray spectroscopy of the neutron-rich fragments
produced in nuclear fission. This subject has been an intensive area of study spanning more …

K isomers in atomic nuclei

PM Walker, FG Kondev - The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2024 - Springer
The properties of K isomers are reviewed. Energies and decay hindrance factors are
considered in detail for selected isomers in the A≈ 160–190 region, focusing on pairing …

Octupole correlations in collective excitations of neutron-rich nuclei

K Nomura - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Octupole correlations in the low-energy collective states of neutron-rich nuclei with the
neutron number N≈ 56 are studied within the interacting boson model (IBM) that is based …

Nuclear isomers

PM Walker, Z Podolyák - Handbook of Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Springer
Isomers are metastable nuclear excitations with long half-lives, ranging from nanoseconds
to years. In general, an isomer's decay is inhibited by at least one of three physical …

Prompt and delayed spectroscopy of neutron-rich and observation of a new isomer

RB Gerst, A Blazhev, N Warr, JN Wilson, M Lebois… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Prompt and delayed γ-ray spectroscopy of the neutron-rich Kr 94 was performed, as part of
the fission campaign at the ALTO facility of the IPN Orsay, using the fast-neutron-induced …

Large scale shell model calculation for collectivity in nuclei beyond

N Chen, JG Li, HH Li - Physical Review C, 2024 - APS
A shell model effective interaction for nuclei beyond the double magic nucleus Ni 78 is
constructed. First, the single-particle evolutions for valence neutrons above the double …

Shape Coexistence in Even–Even Nuclei: A Theoretical Overview

D Bonatsos, A Martinou, SK Peroulis, TJ Mertzimekis… - Atoms, 2023 - mdpi.com
The last decade has seen a rapid growth in our understanding of the microscopic origins of
shape coexistence, assisted by the new data provided by the modern radioactive ion beam …

Deformation from zinc to zirconium

S Chen, F Browne, TR Rodríguez, V Werner - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Extensive gamma-ray spectroscopy of very neutron-rich nuclei of isotopes between the Ni
and Sn isotopic chains was facilitated by the high luminosity LH2 target system, MINOS …

Production of new neutron-rich isotopes near the isotones and by in-flight fission of a 345 MeV/nucleon beam

Y Shimizu, T Kubo, T Sumikama, N Fukuda, H Takeda… - Physical Review C, 2024 - APS
A search for new neutron-rich isotopes near the N= 60 isotones Ge 92 and As 93 has been
performed using a 345 MeV/nucleon U 238 beam at the RIKEN Nishina Center RI Beam …

Systematic analysis of the nuclear absorption effect on the cross section of the knockout reaction

SI Shim, K Yoshida, K Ogata - Journal of the Physical Society of …, 2023 - journals.jps.jp
Recent studies on nucleon and alpha knockout reactions have shown that the distorted-
wave impulse approximation (DWIA) is a simple and accurate method to describe these …