Decay half-lives of Co 76,77, Ni 79,80, and Cu 81: Experimental indication of a doubly magic Ni 78

Z. Y. Xu, S. Nishimura, G. Lorusso, F. Browne, P. Doornenbal, G. Gey, H. S. Jung, Z. Li, M. Niikura, P. A. Söderström, T. Sumikama, J. Taprogge, Zs Vajta, H. Watanabe, J. Wu, A. Yagi, K. Yoshinaga, H. Baba, S. Franchoo, T. IsobeP. R. John, I. Kojouharov, S. Kubono, N. Kurz, I. Matea, K. Matsui, D. Mengoni, P. Morfouace, D. R. Napoli, F. Naqvi, H. Nishibata, A. Odahara, E. Şahin, H. Sakurai, H. Schaffner, I. G. Stefan, D. Suzuki, R. Taniuchi, V. Werner

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Abstract

The half-lives of 20 neutron-rich nuclei with Z=27-30 have been measured at the RIBF, including five new half-lives of Co76(21.7-4.9+6.5ms), Co77(13.0-4.3+7.2ms), Ni79(43.0-7.5+8.6ms), Ni80(23.9-17.2+26.0ms), and Cu81(73.2±6.8ms). In addition, the half-lives of Co73-75, Ni74-78, Cu78-80, and Zn80-82 were determined with higher precision than previous works. Based on these new results, a systematic study of the β-decay half-lives has been carried out, which suggests a sizable magicity for both the proton number Z=28 and the neutron number N=50 in Ni78.

Original languageEnglish
Article number032505
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume113
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014 Jul 16

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  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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