Study of the deformation-driving νd5/2 orbital in 67 28 Ni 39 using one-neutron transfer reactions
J. Diriken (Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCKâ CEN, Boeretang 200, Mol, B-2400, Belgium, KU Leuven, Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, Celestijnenlaan 200D, Leuven, 3001, Belgium); N. Patronis (KU Leuven, Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, Celestijnenlaan 200D, Leuven, 3001, Belgium, Department of Physics, HINP, The University of Ioannina, Ioannina, 45110, Greece); A.N. Andreyev (Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-mura, 319-1195, Japan, Department of Physics, University of York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom, KU Leuven, Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, Celestijnenlaan 200D, Leuven, 3001, Belgium); S. Antalic (Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Comenius University, Bratislava, 84248, Slovakia); V. Bildstein (Physik Department E12, Technische Universität München, Garching, D-85748, Germany); et al - Show all 42 authors
The νg9/2,d5/2,s1/2 orbitals are assumed to be responsible for the swift onset of collectivity observed in the region below 68 Ni. Especially the single-particle energies and strengths of these orbitals are of importance. We studied such properties in the nearby 67 Ni nucleus, by performing a (d,p) -experiment in inverse kinematics employing a post-accelerated radioactive ion beam (RIB) at the REX-ISOLDE facility. The experiment was performed at an energy of 2.95 MeV/u using a combination of the T-REX particle detectors, the Miniball γ -detection array and a newly-developed delayed-correlation technique as to investigate μs-isomers. Angular distributions of the ground state and multiple excited states in 67 Ni were obtained and compared with DWBA cross-section calculations, leading to the identification of positive-parity states with substantial νg9/2 (1007 keV) and νd5/2 (2207 keV and 3277 keV) single-particle strengths up to an excitation energy of 5.8 MeV. 50% of the νd5/2 single-particle strength relative to the νg9/2 -orbital is concentrated in and shared between the first two observed 5/2+ levels. A comparison with extended Shell Model calculations and equivalent ( 3 He, d ) studies in the region around 90 40 Zr 50 highlights similarities for the strength of the negative-parity pf and positive-parity g9/2 state, but differences are observed for the d5/2 single-particle strength.
