Physics Letters B 778 (2018) 155–160
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Study of spectroscopic factors at N = 29 using isobaric analogue
resonances in inverse kinematics
J. Bradt
a,b
, Y. Ayyad
a,1
, D. Bazin
a,b,∗
, W. Mittig
a,b
, T. Ahn
c
, S. Beceiro Novo
a,b
,
B.A. Brown
a,b
, L. Carpenter
a,b
, M. Cortesi
a
, M.P. Kuchera
a,2
, W.G. Lynch
a,b
, S. Rost
a,b,3
,
N. Watwood
a,b
, J. Yurkon
a
, J. Barney
a,b
, U. Datta
d
, J. Estee
a,b
, A. Gillibert
e
, J. Manfredi
a,b
,
P. Morfouace
a,4
, D. Pérez-Loureiro
a,5
, E. Pollacco
e
, J. Sammut
a,b
, S. Sweany
a,b
a
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
b
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
c
Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
d
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata 700 064, India
e
CEA Irfu, Centre de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
12 October 2017
Received
in revised form 20 December 2017
Accepted
8 January 2018
Available
online 17 January 2018
Editor:
D.F. Geesaman
Keywords:
Spectroscopic
factor
Isobaric
analogue state
Resonant
proton elastic scattering
Shell
closure
Single-particle
energy
Shell closures and their associated magic numbers of nucleons provide a unique means for studying
the structure of exotic nuclei far from stability. An experiment was recently performed at the National
Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory to measure resonant elastic proton scattering on
46
Ar in inverse
kinematics in the region containing isobaric analogue states of
47
Ar, an N = 29 nucleus with one neutron
above the N = 28 shell closure. Four candidate re sonances were observed: one corresponding to the 3/2
−
ground state of
47
Ar, another corresponding to its 1/2
−
first excited state, and two that likely correspond
to states in the
47
K compound nucleus. The observed properties of the ground state resonance were
compatible with values from the literature, but a significantly lower spectroscopic factor was found for
the 1/2
−
state resonance.
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The study of the evolution of shell closures in nuclei far from
stability is an important part of current research in nuclear physics.
For example, tensor forces have been found to have a strong influ-
ence
on the N = 20 shell closure in the oxygen isotopes, where a
new semi-magic number appears at N = 16 [1]. At higher N, nu-
clei
such as
48
Ca exhibit the well-established properties of magic
numbers at N = 28, the lowest magic number in the chart of the
nuclides that is caused by spin–orbit splitting. The behavior of
*
Corresponding author at: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michi-
gan
State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
E-mail
address: bazin@nscl.msu.edu (D. Bazin).
1
Present address: Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Labora-
tory,
Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
2
Present address: Department of Physics, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 28035,
USA.
3
Present address: Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich,
52425 Jülich, Germany.
4
Present address: GANIL, Boulevard Henri Becquerel, 14000 Caen, France
5
Present address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
shell closures is a privileged benchmark for nuclear structure mod-
els
because nuclear properties are more easily defined with fewer
valence nucleons. In addition to binding energies, the orbitals can
be characterized based on their neutron separation energies, defor-
mation,
and collectivity [2]. Among the many reaction tools used
to study these properties, transfer reactions are widely known to
directly provide information on the single-particle properties via
the deduction of single-particle energies and spectroscopic factors.
For
these reasons,
47
Ar (Z = 18, N = 29) has been the subject
of a variety of complementary experiments to study the behav-
ior
of the N = 28 neutron shell closure two protons below
48
Ca.
A deduction of the single-particle energies at 10 MeV/u performed
at GANIL by Gaudefroy et al. [3,4] led to the conclusion that the
spin–orbit splitting between the p
3/2
and p
1/2
states is reduced by
45% in
47
Ar as compared to the isotone
49
Ca. This conclusion was
questioned in a comment [5] that described the fragmentation of
p
1/2
strength and noted that one has to take into account the total
strength distribution of this single-particle state in order to deter-
mine
the center of gravity. Gaudefroy et al. [6] addressed this in
a reply where they reported a weaker reduction in the spin–orbit
splitting.
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