Nuclear-structure studies of exotic nuclei with MINIBALL

Butler, PA, Cederkall, J and Reiter, P (2017) Nuclear-structure studies of exotic nuclei with MINIBALL. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS, 44 (4). 044012-044012.

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Abstract

High-resolution γ-ray spectroscopy has been established at ISOLDE for nuclear-structure and nuclear-reaction studies with reaccelerated radioactive ion beams provided by the REX-ISOLDE facility. The MINIBALL spectrometer comprises 24 six-fold segmented, encapsulated high-purity germanium crystals. It was specially designed for highest γ-ray detection efficiency which is advantageous for low-intensity radioactive ion beams. The MINIBALL array has been used in numerous Coulomb-excitation and transfer-reaction experiments with exotic ion beams of energies up to 3 MeV A-1. The physics case covers a wide range of topics which are addressed with beams ranging from neutron-rich magnesium isotopes up to heavy radium isotopes. In the future the HIE-ISOLDE will allow the in-beam γ-ray spectroscopy program to proceed with higher secondary-beam intensity, higher beam energy and better beam quality.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	nuclear structure, gamma-ray spectroscopy, shell model, nuclear shapes
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	13 Sep 2017 13:12
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 06:54
DOI:	10.1088/1361-6471/aa5c4e
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3009452