Conveners
Instrumentation and Techniques
- Yassid Ayyad (University of Santiago de Compostela)
The Active Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC) has been used in experiments aimed at the exploration of structural effects in radioactive nuclei using one step reactions such as transfer or elastic and inelastic scattering. When used as a solenoidal spectrometer by placing it inside a magnetic field, the AT-TPC allows to perform this type of measurement in inverse kinematics with much...
At CERN's antimatter factory, antiprotons are routinely produced and cooled in bunches utilizing the ELENA/AD decelerators. The low energy antiprotons are distributed to a wide range of trapping experiments primarily aiming at precision tests of fundamental symmetries and interactions [1]. The Antimatter Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy (AEGIS) at the antimatter factory has...
Nucleon-nucleon correlaRons lead to changes in shell structure, such as the islands of inversion. The N=28 shell gap has been frequently probed in nuclei south of 48Ca, finding that intruder configuraRons, which correspond to neutron excitaRons across the gap, play an important role in those neutron-rich isotopes at low energy. The locaRon of the states is related to the neutron shell...
An abrupt shape change from spherical to deformed ground states has been observed between 98Zr (N = 58) and 100Zr (N = 60) [1]. Monte Carlo shell model (MCSM) cal- culations suggest that the rapid change in the relative excitation energy of spherical and prolate structures fulfills the requirements of a first-order phase transition, and predict an excitation energy of the 0+4 spherical state...
