Nuclear Physics APub Date : 2025-05-05DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123139
Sakshi Shukla, Praveen C. Srivastava, Chandan Sarma
{"title":"Shell model study of isobaric analog states for |Tz| = 3/2 nuclei using isospin-breaking interactions","authors":"Sakshi Shukla, Praveen C. Srivastava, Chandan Sarma","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123139","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123139","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In mirror nuclei, the mirror energy difference in the excited states is caused by isospin-symmetry breaking. In the present work, the mechanism underlying mirror energy differences in mirror-pair is explored within the shell model formalism. For that, we performed shell-model calculations by focusing on the <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>z</mi></mrow></msub><mo>=</mo><mo>±</mo><mn>3</mn><mo>/</mo><mn>2</mn></math></span> mirror pairs across <em>sd</em>-shell nuclei in the mass range <em>A</em>= 19-37. We used two recently developed USD-family isospin symmetry-breaking interactions, USDC and USDCm, for this purpose to explore low-lying energy spectra and mirror energy differences. The influence of single-particle states, particularly those of the <em>s</em>-wave, on weakly bound and unbound nuclear states was examined. Additionally, we also explored electromagnetic properties such as <em>E2</em> transition probability, magnetic (<em>μ</em>), and quadrupole moments (<em>Q</em>) of those mirror pairs and compared them with the experimental data. Furthermore, we evaluated the isoscalar (<span><math><msub><mrow><mi>M</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>) and isovector (<span><math><msub><mrow><mi>M</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>) matrix elements of the <em>E2</em> transition probabilities along with calculating the single proton/neutron separation energies. While the calculated results using both these interactions are in good agreement with the experimental data, the USDCm performs better for mirror energy differences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19246,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Physics A","volume":"1061 ","pages":"Article 123139"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143923847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Physics APub Date : 2025-05-05DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123140
Y.X. Watanabe , Y. Hirayama , M. Mukai , P. Schury , T. Niwase , S. Kimura , M. Rosenbusch , T. Hashimoto , J.Y. Moon , H. Ishiyama , S. Iimura , H. Miyatake , M. Wada , KISS collaboration
{"title":"Spectroscopy of neutron-rich nuclei produced in multinucleon transfer reactions at KISS","authors":"Y.X. Watanabe , Y. Hirayama , M. Mukai , P. Schury , T. Niwase , S. Kimura , M. Rosenbusch , T. Hashimoto , J.Y. Moon , H. Ishiyama , S. Iimura , H. Miyatake , M. Wada , KISS collaboration","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123140","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123140","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Multinucleon transfer (MNT) reactions have recently gained renewed interest as they provide access to heavy neutron-rich nuclei, particularly around <span><math><mi>N</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>126</mn></math></span> and actinides, which are relevant to r-process nucleosynthesis. They produce a wide variety of nuclides around both the projectile and the target, with a wide distribution of angles and energies, requiring the development of experimental techniques to collect, separate, and identify the reaction products of interest. In particular, exotic nuclei far from the projectile or target are produced so infrequently that they can get buried among more abundant reaction products. We are developing the KEK Isotope Separation System (KISS) at the RIBF facility of RIKEN, which focuses on the extraction of MNT reaction products. We perform decay, mass, and laser spectroscopy of neutron-rich nuclei of refractory elements around the <span><math><mi>N</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>126</mn></math></span> region. A multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrograph is used for high-precision mass measurements and unique identification of isobars. Recently, research has been extended to mass spectroscopy of neutron-rich actinides by using a <sup>238</sup>U beam. The experimental methods and results of KISS as well as its next plan for further neutron-rich regions will be presented.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19246,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Physics A","volume":"1061 ","pages":"Article 123140"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143923883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Physics APub Date : 2025-05-05DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123141
N. Amangeldi , Awad A. Ibraheem , E. Al-Jahwashi , Rehab Yajzey , A.H. Al-Ghamdi , L.S. El-sherif , Sh. Hamada
{"title":"The impact of deuteron breakup and neutron transfer in the d + 10B collision","authors":"N. Amangeldi , Awad A. Ibraheem , E. Al-Jahwashi , Rehab Yajzey , A.H. Al-Ghamdi , L.S. El-sherif , Sh. Hamada","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123141","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123141","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The recently measured angular distribution data for elastic <sup>10</sup>B(<em>d,d</em>)<sup>10</sup>B and inelastic <sup>10</sup>B(<em>d,d</em>)<sup>10</sup>B* scattering at a deuteron energy (<em>E</em><sub>d</sub>) of 14.500 MeV—with transitions to the (1<sup>+</sup>, 0.718 MeV) and (1<sup>+</sup>, 2.154 MeV) excited states of <sup>10</sup>B—were analyzed. Additionally, data for the <sup>10</sup>B(<em>d,t</em>)<sup>9</sup>B neutron pickup reaction involving transitions to the (3/2<sup>-</sup>, 0.000 MeV), (5/2<sup>-</sup>, 2.361 MeV), and (5/2<sup>+</sup>, 2.788 MeV) states of <sup>9</sup>B [N. Saduyev et al., <em>Physics</em> 6 (2024) 1098], as well as the earlier data for the <sup>10</sup>B(<em>d,n</em>)<sup>11</sup>C proton stripping reaction at <em>E<sub>d</sub></em> = 11.8 MeV transitioning to the (3/2<sup>-</sup>, 0.000 MeV) ground state of <sup>11</sup>C, were theoretically studied within the Continuum-Discretized Coupled-Channel (CDCC) and Coupled-Reaction-Channel (CRC) methods. The analysis shows that at forward scattering angles, the elastic scattering data are well reproduced by parameter-free CDCC calculations, which account for deuteron breakup effects. However, at larger backward angles, virtual effects from neutron transfer reactions become significant, while those from proton transfer are insignificant.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19246,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Physics A","volume":"1061 ","pages":"Article 123141"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143935326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Physics APub Date : 2025-05-05DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123142
S. Banerjee , S. Bhattacharyya , S. Chakraborty , Soumik Bhattacharya , G. Mukherjee , S.S. Nayak , Snigdha Pal , Suchorita Paul , A. Pal , D. Kumar , R. Banik , S. Panwar , S. Basu , S. Das Gupta , R. Raut , S.S. Ghugre , Pankaj K. Giri , A. Sharma , S. Kundu , C. Majumder , H. Rahaman
{"title":"Decay of 131La","authors":"S. Banerjee , S. Bhattacharyya , S. Chakraborty , Soumik Bhattacharya , G. Mukherjee , S.S. Nayak , Snigdha Pal , Suchorita Paul , A. Pal , D. Kumar , R. Banik , S. Panwar , S. Basu , S. Das Gupta , R. Raut , S.S. Ghugre , Pankaj K. Giri , A. Sharma , S. Kundu , C. Majumder , H. Rahaman","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123142","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123142","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The half-life of the ground state of <sup>131</sup>La has been measured using high resolution <em>γ</em>-spectroscopy techniques. The activity was obtained using <sup>124</sup>Sn foil irradiated by <sup>14</sup>N beam of energy 115 MeV, delivered by the K-130 Cyclotron at the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata. The active foil was counted for 5 h using 11 Compton-suppressed Clover HPGe detectors of the Indian National Gamma Array (INGA) facility. A half-life of 60.17(1) min has been obtained from the present measurements. Several <em>γ</em>-transitions, tentatively placed in the level scheme of <sup>131</sup>La from previous works, have been confirmed from the present study. The decay half-lives of the <span><math><msup><mrow><mn>6</mn></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo></mrow></msup></math></span> isomeric state in <sup>132</sup>La at 188.2 keV and ground state of <sup>130</sup>La have also been measured as 24.0(4) min and 8.6(2) min, respectively, from the present data.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19246,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Physics A","volume":"1061 ","pages":"Article 123142"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143923841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Physics APub Date : 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123137
H.M. Maridi , D.K. Sharp , J. Lubian
{"title":"Simultaneous calculation of elastic scattering, transfer, breakup, and other direct cross sections for d+197Au reaction","authors":"H.M. Maridi , D.K. Sharp , J. Lubian","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123137","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Simultaneous analyses are performed for cross section of elastic scattering, Coulomb breakup, transfer, and other direct yields for the <em>d</em>+<sup>197</sup>Au system at all available energies. The data are reproduced well by the optical model that is based on parts related to the Coulomb and nuclear contributions of the direct cross sections. This method of calculation can be successfully applied to the reactions of deuteron with heavy targets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19246,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Physics A","volume":"1060 ","pages":"Article 123137"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143899954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moments of inertia in IBM","authors":"A.D. Efimov , I.V. Koval , I.N. Izosimov , P.N. Usmanov","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123134","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123134","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>For more convenient visualization of the character of the spectrum in the band, as well as the quality of reproduction of experimental energies in various models, it is convenient to move from energies to effective moments of inertia <em>J</em> depending on the square of the rotation frequency <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>. In this regard, it is found out what character of <span><math><mi>J</mi><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup><mo>)</mo></math></span> can be reproduced by various limiting cases of IBM, as well as what are the variations in the behavior of <span><math><mi>J</mi><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup><mo>)</mo></math></span> for arbitrary values of the IBM Hamiltonian parameters. This can provide additional information on the change in the nature of states in the bands as the spin increases.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19246,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Physics A","volume":"1060 ","pages":"Article 123134"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143903462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Physics APub Date : 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123133
T.K. Rana , Deepak Pandit , S. Manna , Samir Kundu , K. Banerjee , A. Sen , R. Pandey , G. Mukherjee , T.K. Ghosh , S.S. Nayak , R. Shil , P. Karmakar , K. Atreya , K. Rani , D. Paul , R. Santra , A. Sultana , S. Basu , S. Pal , S. Sadhukhan , C. Bhattacharya
{"title":"Measurement of radiative decay width of the Hoyle state of 12C via 12C(p, p′)12C reaction","authors":"T.K. Rana , Deepak Pandit , S. Manna , Samir Kundu , K. Banerjee , A. Sen , R. Pandey , G. Mukherjee , T.K. Ghosh , S.S. Nayak , R. Shil , P. Karmakar , K. Atreya , K. Rani , D. Paul , R. Santra , A. Sultana , S. Basu , S. Pal , S. Sadhukhan , C. Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123133","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123133","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Hoyle state, the second excited state of <sup>12</sup>C at an excitation energy of 7.65 MeV, plays a vital role in nucleosynthesis. Its radiative decay width serves as a crucial channel for the formation of <sup>12</sup>C and all heavier elements in the Universe. To investigate this, exclusive experiments were conducted to measure the radiative decay width of the Hoyle state via the <sup>12</sup>C(p, p′)<sup>12</sup>C reaction. The radiative decay branching ratio <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>Γ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>r</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>d</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>/Γ was determined to be 4.03(21) × 10<sup>−4</sup>. Based on the currently accepted values of <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>Γ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>π</mi></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mi>E</mi><mn>0</mn><mo>)</mo><mo>/</mo><mi>Γ</mi></math></span> and <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>Γ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>π</mi></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mi>E</mi><mn>0</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span>, the radiative width of the Hoyle state was calculated as 3.75(40) × 10<sup>−3</sup> eV.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19246,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Physics A","volume":"1060 ","pages":"Article 123133"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143903464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Physics APub Date : 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123136
Xiaofeng Wang, Chi Yang
{"title":"Measurements of the nuclear charge distribution in heavy-ion collisions with Breit-Wheeler process","authors":"Xiaofeng Wang, Chi Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123136","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123136","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We report the collision energy dependence of the cross section of dielectrons from the Breit-Wheeler process in heavy-ion collisions computed by the lowest-order QED. It has been demonstrated that the experimental measurements of the Breit-Wheeler process in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions can be used to quantitatively constrain the nuclear charge radius.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19246,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Physics A","volume":"1060 ","pages":"Article 123136"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143912296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Physics APub Date : 2025-04-28DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123119
Gojko Vujanovic
{"title":"Electromagnetic probes of the quantum chromodynamical plasma","authors":"Gojko Vujanovic","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123119","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123119","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, electromagnetic (EM) radiation has been used as a sensitive probe of Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) properties, owing to the smaller EM coupling relative to QCD coupling. To better understand the constraining power of EM emissions on transport properties of the QGP, a deeper understanding of both the theory and phenomenology of EM signals is required. A selection of recent developments in those two areas of QGP EM probes is discussed, with an outlook on how Bayesian model-to-data comparisons can help further quantify our understanding of QGP transport coefficients.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19246,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Physics A","volume":"1060 ","pages":"Article 123119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143903465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuclear Physics APub Date : 2025-04-28DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123116
M. Jandel , L.M. Bobek , D.E. Fernandez , A.G. Fishbein , H.A. Green , A. Howe , K. Konomi , C.J. Lister , T.M. Regan , S. Valenta , E.A. McCutchan , S. Ota
{"title":"Neutron capture measurements at UMass lowell research reactor","authors":"M. Jandel , L.M. Bobek , D.E. Fernandez , A.G. Fishbein , H.A. Green , A. Howe , K. Konomi , C.J. Lister , T.M. Regan , S. Valenta , E.A. McCutchan , S. Ota","doi":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123116","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2025.123116","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A new facility was designed around the thermal column beam port of the 1 MW Research Reactor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Thermal neutrons are collimated to a 1-inch diameter beam and incident on samples to induce the radiative neutron capture. New measurements of capture gamma rays are planned for Mn, Cu, Ni, Cr, and Gd samples in the next few years. The experiments will be carried out in close collaboration with the ENSDF (Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File) evaluation group at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The gamma rays are measured using an array of high-resolution HPGe detectors. Some of the HPGe detectors use active Compton shields that were designed from scintillation detectors and improve significantly the signal-to-background in the measured gamma-ray spectra with HPGe. The experimental spectra will be validated by the GEANT4 simulations of the array and theoretical models of the emission of gamma rays from the compound nucleus. The new experimental results on the capture gamma ray intensities will be incorporated in future ENSDF evaluations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19246,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Physics A","volume":"1060 ","pages":"Article 123116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143903463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}