Laser spectroscopy for the study of exotic nuclei

XF Yang, SJ Wang, SG Wilkins, RFG Ruiz - Progress in Particle and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Investigation into the properties and structure of unstable nuclei far from stability is a key
avenue of research in modern nuclear physics. These efforts are motivated by the continual …

Evolution of shell structure in exotic nuclei

T Otsuka, A Gade, O Sorlin, T Suzuki, Y Utsuno - Reviews of modern physics, 2020 - APS
The atomic nucleus is a quantum many-body system whose constituent nucleons (protons
and neutrons) are subject to complex nucleon-nucleon interactions that include spin-and …

Laser spectroscopy for nuclear structure physics

P Campbell, ID Moore, MR Pearson - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2016 - Elsevier
High-resolution laser spectroscopy is an established powerful tool in the study of nuclear
shape, size and multipole moments. Measurements of the hyperfine structures and isotope …

78Ni revealed as a doubly magic stronghold against nuclear deformation

R Taniuchi, C Santamaria, P Doornenbal, A Obertelli… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Nuclear magic numbers correspond to fully occupied energy shells of protons or neutrons
inside atomic nuclei. Doubly magic nuclei, with magic numbers for both protons and …

Radioactive decays at limits of nuclear stability

M Pfützner, M Karny, LV Grigorenko, K Riisager - Reviews of modern physics, 2012 - APS
The last decades brought impressive progress in synthesizing and studying properties of
nuclides located very far from the beta stability line. Among the most fundamental properties …

New effective interaction for -shell nuclei

M Honma, T Otsuka, T Mizusaki, M Hjorth-Jensen - Physical Review C …, 2009 - APS
We present a new effective interaction for shell-model calculations in the model space
consisting of the single-particle orbits 1 p 3/2, 0 f 5/2, 1 p 1/2, and 0 g 9/2. Starting with a …

Novel features of nuclear forces and shell evolution in exotic nuclei

T Otsuka, T Suzuki, M Honma, Y Utsuno, N Tsunoda… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
Novel simple properties of the monopole component of effective nucleon-nucleon
interactions are presented, leading to the so-called monopole-based universal interaction …

Measurement and microscopic description of odd–even staggering of charge radii of exotic copper isotopes

RP De Groote, J Billowes, CL Binnersley, ML Bissell… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Nuclear charge radii globally scale with atomic mass number A as A 1∕ 3, and isotopes
with an odd number of neutrons are usually slightly smaller in size than their even-neutron …

Precision atomic physics techniques for nuclear physics with radioactive beams

K Blaum, J Dilling, W Nörtershäuser - Physica Scripta, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Atomic physics techniques for the determination of ground-state properties of radioactive
isotopes are very sensitive and provide accurate masses, binding energies, Q-values …

Novel shape evolution in exotic Ni isotopes and configuration-dependent shell structure

Y Tsunoda, T Otsuka, N Shimizu, M Honma, Y Utsuno - Physical Review C, 2014 - APS
The shapes of neutron-rich exotic Ni isotopes are studied. Large-scale shell model
calculations are performed by the advanced Monte Carlo shell model (MCSM) for the pf-g …