arXiv · 2302.14382
N=16 magicity revealed at the proton drip-line through the study of 35Ca
Abstract
The last proton bound calcium isotope $^{35}$Ca has been studied for the first time, using the $^{37}$Ca($p, t$)$^{35}$Ca two neutron transfer reaction. The radioactive $^{37}$Ca nuclei, produced by the LISE spectrometer at GANIL, interacted with the protons of the liquid hydrogen target CRYPTA, to produce tritons $t$ that were detected in the MUST2 detector array, in coincidence with the heavy residues Ca or Ar. The atomic mass of $^{35}$Ca and the energy of its first 3/2$^+$ state are reported. A large $N=16$ gap of 4.61(11) MeV is deduced from the mass measurement, which together with other measured properties, makes $^{36}$Ca a doubly-magic nucleus. The $N = 16$ shell gaps in $^{36}$Ca and $^{24}$O are of similar amplitude, at both edges of the valley of stability. This feature is discussed in terms of nuclear forces involved, within state-of-the-art shell model calculations. Even though the global agreement with data is quite convincing, the calculations underestimate the size of the $N = 16$ gap in 36Ca by 840(110) keV.
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L. Lalanne, O. Sorlin, A. Poves, M. Assié, F. Hammache, S. Koyama, D. Suzuki, F. Flavigny, V. Girard-Alcindor, A. Lemasson, A. Matta, T. Roger, D. Beaumel, Y Blumenfeld, B. A. Brown, F. De Oliveira Santos, F. Delaunay, N. de Séréville, S. Franchoo, J. Gibelin, J. Guillot, O. Kamalou, N. Kitamura, V. Lapoux, B. Mauss, P. Morfouace, J. Pancin, T. Y. Saito, C. Stodel, J-C. Thomas. 2023-02-28. N=16 magicity revealed at the proton drip-line through the study of 35Ca. https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14382
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