Advances in Radioactive Isotope Science

Collectivity Along N=50: The Neutron-magic 92Mo and 94Ru

30 May 2017, 16:50

15m

Invited Presentation Breakout 2

Speaker

Rosa María Pérez Vidal (Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universitat de València)

Description

The 100Sn nucleus, being the heaviest bound doubly-magic nucleus with equal number of protons and neutrons, has attracted considerable interest from the experimental as well as theoretical point of view. In particular, the structure of this nucleus and its neighbours are excellent benchmark cases to test state-of-the-art shell-model calculations in the region. Such models, predict an inversion of the B(E2;4+->2+) trend towards the complete occupation of the g9/2 orbital -thus towards 100Sn-, owing to an increasing pairing-strength along the N=50 isotones [1], differently to what has been observed for the neutron-rich Z=28 isotopes, where neutrons occupy the same orbitals. To test experimentally this phenomenon, the AGATA gamma array, installed recently at the GANIL laboratory, has been used, in combination with the IKP Cologne plunger [2], with the aim to measure the reduced transition probabilities for the 4+->2+ and 2+->0+ yrast transitions in 94Ru and 92Mo nuclei. The multi-nucleon transfer (MNT) reaction mechanism has been unconventionally [3] used to populate the proton rich nuclei of interest. Contrary to fusion evaporation, MNT reactions allow, to populate directly medium to low angular momentum states, even in presence of isomers, thus, allowing the direct determination of the lifetimes. In this experiment, a 92Mo beam with an energy of 716.9 MeV impinged in the stretched 92Mo target of the Plunger, while a 24Mg foil was used to degrade the energy of the reaction products. The reaction products of interest were identified with the magnetic spectrometer VAMOS++ [4], while the gamma-ray in coincidence were measured using AGATA [5]. Preliminary results on the obtained lifetimes and reduced transition probabilities for the 4 +->2 + and 2 +->0 + yrast transitions in 94 Ru and 92Mo will be shown. In this contribution these results will be interpreted on the basis of shell model predictions, allowing also for the comparison of the nuclear structure trends between the valence mirror symmetry partners 56-78Ni Z=28 isotopes and 78Ni-100Sn N=50 isotonic chain. References: [1] A.F. Lisetsky et al. PRC 70, 044314 2004 [2] A. Dewald et al., Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 67, 786 (2012) [3] R. Broda et al. PLB 251 (90) 245 [4] M. Rejmund, et al., Nucl. Instr. and Methods in Phys. Res. A 646 (1) (2011) 184 [5] S. Akkoyun, et al., Nucl. Instr. and Methods in Phys. Res. A 668 (2012) 26