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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 123, 2016
Heavy Ion Accelerator Symposium 2015: International Nuclear Structure Conference in Remembrance of George Dracoulis
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| Article Number | 02003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Nuclear Spectroscopy | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612302003 | |
| Published online | 05 September 2016 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612302003
Towards Superheavies: Spectroscopy of 94 < Z < 98, 150 < N < 154 Nuclei
1 Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, USA
2 Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
a e-mail: partha_chowdhury@uml.edu
Published online: 5 September 2016
The heaviest nuclei where excitations above the ground state can be studied lie near Z ~ 100. These nuclear structure studies are important testing grounds for theoretical models that aim to describe superheavy nuclei. To study the highest neutron orbitals (150 ≤ N ≤ 154), we have populated high angular momentum states in a series of Pu (Z = 94), Cm (Z = 96) and Cf (Z = 98) nuclei, via inelastic and transfer reactions, with heavy beams on long-lived radioactive actinide targets. Multiple collective excitation modes and structures were identified, and their configurations deduced. Quasiparticle alignments are mapped, with odd-A band structures helping identify specific orbital contributions via blocking arguments. Higher-order multipole shapes are observed to play a significant role in disentangling competing neutron and proton alignments. The N > 152 data provide new perspectives on physics beyond the N = 152 sub-shell gap.
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