The structure of neutron-rich nuclei - First results from the Coupled Cyclotron Facility at Michigan State University
Abstract
The Coupled Cyclotron Facility at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University has started user operation. In some of the first experiments, the structure of neutron-rich nuclei has been studied via intermediate-energy heavy-ion scattering. Photons were detected in a position-sensitive NaI scintillation detector array and in an array of segmented high-purity Germanium detectors. The photon energies provide the excitation energies of bound states and the photon yields are a measure of the excitation cross sections to specific states. Our first experiments have concentrated on neutron-rich nuclei in the π(sd)-shell made by fragmentation of ^40Ar and ^48Ca beams. The results of these first experiments will be discussed in the context of the structure of exotic neutron-rich nuclei.
- Publication:
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APS Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- October 2001
- Bibcode:
- 2001APS..HAW.TA002G