α-transfer

[preprint] Populating Low-Spin States in Radioactive Nuclei to Measure Magnetic Moments Using the Transient Field Technique

Populating Low-Spin States in Radioactive Nuclei to Measure Magnetic Moments Using the Transient Field Technique

D.A. Torres and F. Ramírez

arXiv: 1601.03602

The experimental study of magnetic moments for nuclear states near the ground state, I≥2, provides a powerful tool to test nuclear structure models. The study of magnetic moments in nuclei far away from the stability line is the next frontier in such studies. Two techniques have been utilized to populated low-spin states in radioactive nuclei: coulomb excitation reactions using radioactive nuclei, and the transfer of α particles to stable beams to populate low spin states in radioactive nuclei. A presentations of these two techniques, along with the experimental challenges presented for future uses with nuclei far away from the stability line, will be presented.

[paper] First g-factor measurements of the 21+ and the 41+ states of radioactive 100Pd

First g-factor measurements of the 21+ and the 41+ states of radioactive 100Pd

D.A. Torres et al.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.84.044327

The g factors of the first 2+ and 4+ states of the radioactive 100Pd nucleus have been investigated for the first time, using an α-particle transfer reaction from 12C to 96Ru. The transient magnetic field technique in inverse kinematics was used. The 10046Pd54 nucleus is a suitable candidate for studying single-particle proton and neutron effects in the nuclear wave functions near the N=Z=50 shell closures. The results are discussed within the frameworks of both large-scale shell-model calculations and collective-model predictions.