Exotic Shapes and High Spin physics with Intense Stable Beams
Shell structure far from spherical magic numbers
Which is the adopted deformation and how it changes with spin andenergy ?
What are the active orbitals and their correlations ?
How is spin generated ?
How much spin can the nucleus sustain ?
Superdeformed world = more than 250 SD rotational bands
Octupole vibrationsGyromagnetic factors
Triaxial bands + wobbling
Band termination
Particle decay
Large Shell Model calculations
SD bindingenergies
Jacobi shape transition
Rotational damping
Hyperdeformation
ChaosAssistedtunneling
superdeformation
fission
SPIN
ENERGY GDR
Tetrahedralnuclei
A domain rich of new exotic phenomena to be discovered and studied
HIGH L
HLHD ExperimentEUROBALL: 64Ni + 64Ni
• 261 MeV: 52 keV ridge appears
4 x 52 keVInt.: 993
Int.: 1367
Ridge intensity ~5 x 10-5
Search for discrete-line HD spectraEuroball, E ~ 52 keV
A strange feeling of ‘déjà vu’
Triaxiality and
Wobbling TSD4
TSD1TSD2
TSD3
Relative population
TSD1: 10% TSD2: 3% TSD3: 1.2% TSD4: 0.9%
Experimental results in
163LuThe best
”Wobbler”
D.R. Jensen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (2002), 142503.
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2.0
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R L/R S
I []
I=27
0.00
0.04
0.08
0.12
0.16
0.20
0.24
0.28
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
E [MeV]
I=0
0.00
0.04
0.08
0.12
0.16
0.20
0.24
0.28
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
E [MeV]
I=25
0.00
0.04
0.08
0.12
0.16
0.20
0.24
0.28
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
E [MeV]
I=34
0.00
0.04
0.08
0.12
0.16
0.20
0.24
0.28
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35E [MeV]
I=0
I=25
I=27
I=34
Looking for Jacoby shape transition
spin
Oblate Prolate
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Y [a
. u.]
E [MeV]
Exp. LSD (I = 28-34) LSD (I = 24)with Coriolis
Gates:
Time of FlightResidues nuclei (42Ca)Low energy multiplicity
Theory: (Jacoby shape transition)LSD model + Coriolis Splitting
A. Maj et al. Nucl. Phys. A731 (2004) 319
Fusion evaporation reactions
Ibeam ~ 10 - 10 p/s
Limitation: counting rate in theGermanium detectors and/orcommon acquisition dead-time
10 11
Resolving power ~ 10 -4
Limitation: current arrays
(5-10 pnA)
High spin states populated in
Fighting to observe VERY WEAK signals…
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