Nuclear structure at the limits.: Exploring the changing of shell structure with modern -ray detectors

✍ Scribed by Giacomo de Angelis

• Book ID: 104089430
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 501 KB
• Volume: 59
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0146-6410
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ppnp.2007.01.020

✦ Synopsis

To understand the properties of a nucleus, apart from establishing the interaction between its components, it is necessary to determine the arrangement of the nucleons, i.e. the structure of a nucleus. So far our knowledge about the structure of nuclei is mostly limited to nuclei close to the valley of stability, or nuclei with a deficiency of neutrons, which can be produced in fusion-evaporation reactions with stable beams and stable targets. Future perspectives in nuclear structure rely on the availability of beams of unstable ions as well as of high-intensity beams of stable ions. One of the best example of the potentialities of the high-intensity stable beams in nuclear structure studies is related to the use of deep-inelastic and multi-nucleon transfer reactions to access nuclei with a large neutron excess. The study of proton-rich nuclei can benefit from the use of high-intensity stable beams using fusion-evaporation reactions at energies close to the Coulomb barrier. The development of a γ -ray detection system capable of tracking the location of the energy deposited at every γ -ray interaction point will also provide an unparallel level of detection sensitivity, and will open new avenues for nuclear structure studies.