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Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Mar 04;88(9):092501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.092501. Epub 2002 Feb 15.

(68)(28)Ni(40): Magicity versus superfluidity.

Physical review letters

O Sorlin, S Leenhardt, C Donzaud, J Duprat, F Azaiez, F Nowacki, H Grawe, Zs Dombrádi, F Amorini, A Astier, D Baiborodin, M Belleguic, C Borcea, C Bourgeois, D M Cullen, Z Dlouhy, E Dragulescu, M Górska, S Grévy, D Guillemaud-Mueller, G Hagemann, B Herskind, J Kiener, R Lemmon, M Lewitowicz, S M Lukyanov, P Mayet, F de Oliveira Santos, D Pantalica, Yu-E Penionzhkevich, F Pougheon, A Poves, N Redon, M G Saint-Laurent, J A Scarpaci, G Sletten, M Stanoiu, O Tarasov, Ch Theisen

Affiliations

  1. Institut de Physique Nucléaire, IN2P3-CNRS, F-91406 Orsay Cedex, France.

PMID: 11863997 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.092501

Abstract

The neutron-rich (66,68)Ni have been produced at GANIL via interactions of a 65.9A MeV 70Zn beam with a 58Ni target. Their reduced transition probability B(E2;0(+)(1)-->2+) has been measured for the first time by Coulomb excitation in a (208)Pb target at intermediate energy. The B(E2) value for (68)Ni(40) is unexpectedly small. An analysis in terms of large scale shell model calculations stresses the importance of proton core excitations to reproduce the B(E2) values and indicates the erosion of the N = 40 harmonic-oscillator subshell by neutron-pair scattering.

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