Effect of ground-state deformation on the isoscalar giant monopole resonance and the first observation of overtones of the isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance in rare-Earth Nd isotopes

M. Abdullah, S. Bagchi, M. N. Harakeh, H. Akimune, D. Das, T. Doi, L. M. Donaldson, Y. Fujikawa, M. Fujiwara, T. Furuno, U. Garg, Y. K. Gupta, K. B. Howard, Y. Hijikata, K. Inaba, S. Ishida, M. Itoh, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, D. Kar, T. KawabataS. Kawashima, K. Khokhar, K. Kitamura, N. Kobayashi, Y. Matsuda, A. Nakagawa, S. Nakamura, K. Nosaka, S. Okamoto, S. Ota, S. Pal, R. Pramanik, S. Roy, S. Weyhmiller, Z. Yang, J. C. Zamora

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Abstract

The strength distributions of the Isoscalar Giant Monopole Resonance (ISGMR) and Isoscalar Giant Quadrupole Resonance (ISGQR) in 142,146−150Nd have been determined via inelastic α-particle scattering with the Grand Raiden (GR) Spectrometer at the Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Japan. In the deformed nuclei 146−150Nd, the ISGMR strength distributions exhibit a splitting into two components, while the nearly spherical nucleus 142Nd displays a single peak in the ISGMR strength distribution. A noteworthy achievement in this study is the first-time detection of overtones in the Isoscalar Giant Quadrupole Resonance (ISGQR) strength distributions within Nd isotopes at an excitation energy around 25 MeV obtained through Multipole Decomposition Analysis (MDA).

Original languageEnglish
Article number138852
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume855
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024 Aug

Keywords

  • Compression modes
  • Ground-state deformation
  • Isoscalar giant resonances
  • Nd isotope chain
  • Overtones

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