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 …

Charge radii of exotic potassium isotopes challenge nuclear theory and the magic character of N = 32

Á Koszorús, XF Yang, WG Jiang, SJ Novario, SW Bai… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Nuclear charge radii are sensitive probes of different aspects of the nucleon–nucleon
interaction and the bulk properties of nuclear matter, providing a stringent test and challenge …

Nuclear Charge Radii of the Nickel Isotopes

S Malbrunot-Ettenauer, S Kaufmann, S Bacca… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Collinear laser spectroscopy is performed on the nickel isotopes Ni 58-68, 70, using a time-
resolved photon counting system. From the measured isotope shifts, nuclear charge radii R …

Proton superfluidity and charge radii in proton-rich calcium isotopes

AJ Miller, K Minamisono, A Klose, D Garand… - Nature physics, 2019 - nature.com
One of the most important global properties of the atomic nucleus is its size. Experimentally
determined nuclear charge radii carry unique information on the nuclear force and complex …

Charge Radii of Reveal a Surprisingly Similar Behavior at in Ca and Ni Isotopes

F Sommer, K König, DM Rossi, N Everett, D Garand… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Nuclear charge radii of Ni 55, 56 were measured by collinear laser spectroscopy. The
obtained information completes the behavior of the charge radii at the shell closure of the …

Laser Spectroscopy of Neutron-Rich Tin Isotopes: A Discontinuity in Charge Radii across the Shell Closure

C Gorges, LV Rodríguez, DL Balabanski, ML Bissell… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
The change in mean-square nuclear charge radii δ⟨ r 2⟩ along the even-A tin isotopic
chain Sn 108-134 has been investigated by means of collinear laser spectroscopy at …

Calculation of nuclear charge radii with a trained feed-forward neural network

D Wu, CL Bai, H Sagawa, HQ Zhang - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
A feed-forward neural network model is trained to calculate the nuclear charge radii. The
model is trained with the input data set of proton and neutron number Z, N, the electric …

Toward a global description of nuclear charge radii: Exploring the Fayans energy density functional

PG Reinhard, W Nazarewicz - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
Background: Binding energies and charge radii are fundamental properties of atomic nuclei.
When inspecting their particle-number dependence, both quantities exhibit pronounced odd …

Compilation of recent nuclear ground state charge radius measurements and tests for models

T Li, Y Luo, N Wang - Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables, 2021 - Elsevier
The root-mean-square (rms) charge radii of 236 nuclides measured by laser spectroscopy
experiment are compiled, and the uncertainties are calculated. From the rms charge radii of …

Elucidating the nature of the proton radioactivity and branching ratio on the first proton emitter discovered 53mCo

LG Sarmiento, T Roger, J Giovinazzo, BA Brown… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The observation of a weak proton-emission branch in the decay of the 3174-keV 53mCo
isomeric state marked the discovery of proton radioactivity in atomic nuclei in 1970. Here we …