New alpha-Emitting Isotope U-214 and Abnormal Enhancement of alpha-Particle Clustering in Lightest Uranium Isotopes
2021 (English)In: Physical Review Letters, ISSN 0031-9007, E-ISSN 1079-7114, Vol. 126, no 15, article id 152502Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
A new alpha-emitting isotope U-214, produced by the fusion-evaporation reaction W-182(Ar-36,4n) U-214, was identified by employing the gas-filled recoil separator SHANS and the recoil-a correlation technique. More precise a-decay properties of even-even nuclei U-216,U-218 were also measured in the reactions of Ar-40, Ca-40 beams with W-180,W-182,W- 184 targets. By combining the experimental data, improved alpha-decay reduced widths delta(2) for the even-even Po-Pu nuclei in the vicinity of the magic neutron number N = 126 are deduced. Their systematic trends are discussed in terms of the N-p N-n scheme in order to study the influence of protonneutron interaction on a decay in this region of nuclei. It is strikingly found that the reduced widths of( 214,216)U are significantly enhanced by a factor of two as compared with the NpNn systematics for the 84 <= Z <= 90 and N < 126 even-even nuclei. The abnormal enhancement is interpreted by the strong monopole interaction between the valence protons and neutrons occupying the pi 1f (7/2) and nu 1f(5/2) spin-orbit partner orbits, which is supported by the large-scale shell model calculation.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Physical Society (APS) , 2021. Vol. 126, no 15, article id 152502
National Category
Subatomic Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-296865DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.152502ISI: 000652828400005PubMedID: 33929212Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85104441549OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-296865DiVA, id: diva2:1564133
Note
QC 20210611
2021-06-112021-06-112022-06-25Bibliographically approved