Resumen
The first γ-ray spectroscopy of Ar52, with the neutron number N=34, was measured using the K53(p,2p) one-proton removal reaction at ∼210 MeV/u at the RIBF facility. The 21+ excitation energy is found at 1656(18) keV, the highest among the Ar isotopes with N>20. This result is the first experimental signature of the persistence of the N=34 subshell closure beyond Ca54, i.e., below the magic proton number Z=20. Shell-model calculations with phenomenological and chiral-effective-field-theory interactions both reproduce the measured 21+ systematics of neutron-rich Ar isotopes, and support a N=34 subshell closure in Ar52.
| Idioma original | Inglés |
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| Número de artículo | 072502 |
| Publicación | Physical Review Letters |
| Volumen | 122 |
| N.º | 7 |
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| Estado | Publicada - 21 feb. 2019 |
| Publicado de forma externa | Sí |