Microscopic structure of coexisting 0+ states in Ni 68 probed via two-neutron transfer

F. Flavigny, J. Elseviers, A. N. Andreyev, C. Bauer, V. Bildstein, A. Blazhev, B. A. Brown, H. De Witte, J. Diriken, V. N. Fedosseev, S. Franchoo, R. Gernhäuser, M. Huyse, S. Ilieva, S. Klupp, Th. Kröll, R. Lutter, B. A. Marsh, D. Mücher, K. NowakT. Otsuka, J. Pakarinen, N. Patronis, R. Raabe, F. Recchia, P. Reiter, T. Roger, S. Sambi, M. Seidlitz, M. D. Seliverstov, B. Siebeck, Y. Tsunoda, P. Van Duppen, M. Vermeulen, M. Von Schmid, D. Voulot, N. Warr, F. Wenander, K. Wimmer

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Abstract

The structure of low-spin states originating from shape-coexisting configurations in Ni284068 was directly probed via the two-neutron transfer reaction Ni66(t,p)Ni68 in inverse kinematics using a radioactive ion beam on a radioactive target. The direct feeding to the first excited 0+ state was measured for center-of-mass angles 4-16 and amounts to an integral of 4.2(16)% relative to the ground state. The observed difference in feeding of the 0+ states is explained by the transfer of neutrons, mainly in the pf shell below N=40 for the ground state, and across N=40 in the g9/2 orbital for the 02+, based on second-order distorted-wave Born approximation calculations combined with state-of-the-art shell-model two-nucleon amplitudes. However, the direct feeding to the 21+ state [29(3)%] is incompatible with these calculations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number054332
Pages (from-to)054332
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume99
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 May 2019

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