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Author Morales, A.I.; Algora, A.; Molina, F.; Rubio, B. doi  openurl
  Title Half-Life Systematics across the N=126 Shell Closure: Role of First-Forbidden Transitions in the beta Decay of Heavy Neutron-Rich Nuclei Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2014 Publication Physical Review Letters Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. Lett.  
  Volume 113 Issue 2 Pages 022702 - 5pp  
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  Abstract This Letter reports on a systematic study of beta-decay half-lives of neutron-rich nuclei around doubly magic Pb-208. The lifetimes of the 126-neutron shell isotone Pt-204 and the neighboring Ir200-202, Pt-203, Au-204 are presented together with other 19 half-lives measured during the “stopped beam” campaign of the rare isotope investigations at GSI collaboration. The results constrain the main nuclear theories used in calculations of r-process nucleosynthesis. Predictions based on a statistical macroscopic description of the first-forbidden beta strength reveal significant deviations for most of the nuclei with N < 126. In contrast, theories including a fully microscopic treatment of allowed and first-forbidden transitions reproduce more satisfactorily the trend in the measured half-lives for the nuclei in this region, where the r-process pathway passes through during beta decay back to stability.  
  Address [Morales, A. I.; Benlliure, J.; Kurtukian-Nieto, T.; Verma, S.; Casarejos, E.; Alvarez-Pol, H.; Estevez-Aguado, M. E.] Univ Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago De Compostela, Spain, Email: anaisabel.morales@mi.infn.it  
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  Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
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  ISSN 0031-9007 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000341315100007 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1913  
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Author Grodner, E. et al; Gadea, A.; Algora, A.; Agramunt, J.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Molina, F.; Rubio, B. doi  openurl
  Title Hindered Gamow-Teller Decay to the Odd-Odd N = Z Ga-62: Absence of Proton-Neutron T=0 Condensate in A=62 Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2014 Publication Physical Review Letters Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. Lett.  
  Volume 113 Issue 9 Pages 092501 - 5pp  
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  Abstract Search for a new kind of superfluidity built on collective proton-neutron pairs with aligned spin is performed studying the Gamow-Teller decay of the T = 1, J(pi) = 0(+) ground state of Ge-62 into excited states of the odd-odd N = Z nucleus Ga-62. The experiment is performed at GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Shwerionenforshung with the Ge-62 ions selected by the fragment separator and implanted in a stack of Si-strip detectors, surrounded by the RISING Ge array. A half-life of T-1/2 = 2 82.9(14) ms is measured for the Ge-62 ground state. Six excited states of Ga-62, populated below 2.5 MeV through Gamow-Teller transitions, are identified. Individual Gamow-Teller transition strengths agree well with theoretical predictions of the interacting shell model and the quasiparticle random phase approximation. The absence of any sizable low-lying Gamow-Teller strength in the reported beta-decay experiment supports the hypothesis of a negligible role of coherent T = 0 proton-neutron correlations in Ga-62.  
  Address [Grodner, E.] Univ Warsaw, Fac Phys, Warsaw, Poland  
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  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  ISSN 0031-9007 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000341292800008 Approved no  
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  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1919  
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Author Gottardo, A. et al; Gadea, A.; Algora, A. doi  openurl
  Title Isomeric decay spectroscopy of the Bi-217 isotope Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2014 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C  
  Volume 90 Issue 3 Pages 034317 - 6pp  
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  Abstract The structure of the neutron-rich bismuth isotope Bi-217 has been studied for the first time. The fragmentation of a primary U-238 beam at the FRS-RISING setup at GSI was exploited to perform gamma-decay spectroscopy, since μs isomeric states were expected in this nucleus. Gamma rays following the decay of a t(1/2) = 3 μs isomer were observed, allowing one to establish the low-lying structure of Bi-217. The level energies and the reduced electric quadrupole transition probability B(E2) from the isomeric state are compared to large-scale shell-model calculations.  
  Address [Gottardo, A.; Valiente-Dobon, J. J.; de Angelis, G.; Modamio, V.; Napoli, D. R.; Sahin, E.] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro, Italy, Email: andrea.gottardo@lnl.infn.it  
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  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  ISSN 0556-2813 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000342140100003 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1930  
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Author Wendt, A. et al; Algora, A. doi  openurl
  Title Isospin symmetry in the sd shell: Transition strengths in the neutron-deficient sd shell nucleus Ar-33 Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2014 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C  
  Volume 90 Issue 5 Pages 054301 - 7pp  
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  Abstract Reduced transition strengths of the deexciting transitions from the first two excited states in Ar-33 were measured in a relativistic Coulomb excitation experiment at the GSI Helmholtz center. The radioactive ion beam was produced by fragmentation of a primary Ar-36 beam on a Be-9 target followed by the selection of the reaction product of interest via the GSI Fragment Separator. The (33A)r beam hit a secondary Au-197 target with an energy of approximately 145 MeV/nucleon. An array of high-purity germanium cluster detectors and large-volume BaF2 scintillator detectors were employed for gamma-ray spectroscopy at the secondary target position. The Lund-York-Cologne Calorimeter was used to track the outgoing ions and to identify the nuclear reaction channels. For the two lowest energy excited states of Ar-33 the reduced transition strengths have been determined. With these first results the T-z = -3/2 nucleus Ar-33 is now, together with Na-21 (T-z = -1/2), the only neutron-deficient odd-A sd shell nucleus in which experimental transition strengths are available. The experimental values are compared to results of shell-model calculations which describe simultaneously mirror-energy differences and transition-strength values of mirror pairs in the sd shell in a consistent way.  
  Address [Wendt, A.; Taprogge, J.; Reiter, P.; Blazhev, A.; Braun, N.; Geibel, K.; Hackstein, M.; Moschner, K.; Siebeck, B.; Warr, N.] Univ Cologne, Inst Kernphys, Cologne, Germany  
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  Notes WOS:000344489100002 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2005  
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Author Ganioglu, E. et al; Algora, A.; Estevez-Aguado, E.; Molina, F.; Rubio, B. doi  openurl
  Title High-resolution study of Gamow-Teller transitions in the Ti-47(He-3, t)V-47 reaction Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2013 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C  
  Volume 87 Issue 1 Pages 014321 - 12pp  
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  Abstract Given the importance of Gamow-Teller (GT) transitions in nuclear structure and astrophysical nuclear processes, we have studied T-z = +3/2 -> +1/2, GT transitions starting from the Ti-47 nucleus in the (He-3, t) charge-exchange reaction at 0 degrees and at an intermediate incident energy of 140 MeV/nucleon. The experiments were carried out at the Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka, using the high-resolution facility with a high-dispersion beam line and the Grand-Raiden spectrometer. With an energy resolution of 20 keV, individual GT transitions were observed and GT strength was derived for each state populated up to an excitation energy (E-x) of 12.5 MeV. The GT strength was widely distributed from low excitation energy up to 12.5 MeV, where we had to stop the analysis because of the high level density. The distribution of the GT strengths was compared with the results of shell model calculations using the GXPF1 interaction. The calculations could reproduce the experimental GT distributions well. The GT transitions from the ground state of Ti-47 and the M1 transitions from the isobaric analog state in V-47 to the same low-lying states in V-47 are analogous. It was found that the ratios of GT transition strengths to the ground state, the 0.088-MeV state, and the 0.146-MeV state are similar to the ratios of the strengths of the analogous M1 transitions from the isobaric analog state (IAS) to these states. The measured distribution of the GT strengths was also compared with those starting from the T-z = +3/2 nucleus K-41 to the T-z = +1/2 nucleus Ca-41.  
  Address [Ganioglu, E.; Susoy, G.] Istanbul Univ, Dept Phys, TR-34134 Istanbul, Turkey, Email: ganioglu@istanbul.edu.tr;  
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  Notes WOS:000313548700005 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1308  
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Author Alharbi, T. et al; Algora, A. doi  openurl
  Title Electromagnetic transition rates in the N=80 nucleus Ce-138(58) Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2013 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C  
  Volume 87 Issue 1 Pages 014323 - 7pp  
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  Abstract The half-life of the I-pi = 6(+) yrast state at E-x = 2294 keV in Ce-138 has been measured as T-1/2 = 880(19) ps using the fast-timing gamma-ray coincidence method with a mixed LaBr3(Ce)-HPGe array. The excited states in Ce-138 have been populated by the Te-130(C-12, 4n) fusion-evaporation reaction at an incident beam energy of 56 MeV. The extracted B(E2; 6(1)(+) -> 4(1)(+)) = 0.101(24) W.u. value is compared with the predictions of truncated basis shell model calculations and with the systematics of the region. This shows an anomalous behavior compared to the neighboring isotonic and isotopic chains. Half-lives for the yrast 5(-), 11(+) and 14(+) states in Ce-138 have also been determined in this work.  
  Address [Alharbi, T.; Regan, P. H.; Mason, P. J. R.; Podolyak, Zs; Simpson, E. C.; Alazemi, N.; Britton, R.; Bunce, M. R.; Gelletly, W.; Lintott, J.; Nakhostin, M.; Rice, S.; Townsley, C.; Wilson, E.] Univ Surrey, Dept Phys, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, England  
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  ISSN 0556-2813 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000313751800002 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1312  
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Author Wrede, C.; Sjue, S.K.L.; Garcia, A.; Swanson, H.E.; Ahmad, I.; Algora, A.; Elomaa, V.V.; Eronen, T.; Hakala, J.; Jokinen, A.; Kolhinen, V.S.; Moore, I.D.; Penttila, H.; Reponen, M.; Rissanen, J.; Saastamoinen, A.; Aysto, J. doi  openurl
  Title Electron capture on In-116 and implications for nuclear structure related to double-beta decay Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2013 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C  
  Volume 87 Issue 3 Pages 031303 - 5pp  
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  Abstract The electron capture decay branch of In-116 has been measured to be [2.46 +/- 0.44(stat.) +/- 0.39(syst.)] x 10(-4) using Penning trap-assisted decay spectroscopy. The corresponding Gamow-Teller transition strength is shown to be compatible with the most recent value extracted from the (p, n) charge-exchange reaction, providing a resolution to longstanding discrepancies. This transition can now be used as a reliable benchmark for nuclear-structure calculations of the matrix element for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Cd-116 and other nuclides.  
  Address [Wrede, C.; Garcia, A.; Swanson, H. E.] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA, Email: wrede@nscl.msu.edu  
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  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  ISSN 0556-2813 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000315735100002 Approved no  
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  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1348  
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Author Jordan, D.; Tain, J.L.; Algora, A.; Agramunt, J.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Gomez-Hornillos, M.B.; Caballero-Folch, R.; Cortes, G.; Cano-Ott, D.; Mendoza, E.; Bandac, I.; Bettini, A.; Fraile, L.M.; Domingo, C. doi  openurl
  Title Measurement of the neutron background at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory LSC Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2013 Publication Astroparticle Physics Abbreviated Journal Astropart Phys.  
  Volume 42 Issue Pages 1-6  
  Keywords Neutron background; Underground physics; He-3 proportional counters  
  Abstract The energy distribution of the neutron background was measured for the first time at Hall A of the Canfranc Underground Laboratory. For this purpose we used a novel approach based on the combination of the information obtained with six large high-pressure He-3 proportional counters embedded in individual polyethylene blocks of different size. In this way not only the integral value but also the flux distribution as a function of neutron energy was determined in the range from 1 eV to 10 MeV. This information is of importance because different underground experiments show different neutron background energy dependence. The high sensitivity of the setup allowed to measure a neutron flux level which is about four orders of magnitude smaller that the neutron background at sea level. The integral value obtained is Phi(Hall A) = (3.44 +/- 0.35) x 10(-6) cm(-2) s(-1).  
  Address [Jordan, D.; Tain, J. L.; Algora, A.; Agramunt, J.; Domingo-Pardo, C.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Valencia, Spain, Email: jordan@ific.uv.es  
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  Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0927-6505 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000315371900001 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1351  
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Author Jordan, D. et al; Algora, A.; Tain, J.L.; Rubio, B.; Agramunt, J.; Perez-Cerdan, A.B.; Molina, F.; Caballero, L. doi  openurl
  Title Total absorption study of the beta decay of Tc-102,Tc-104,Tc-105 Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2013 Publication Physical Review C Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. C  
  Volume 87 Issue 4 Pages 044318 - 14pp  
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  Abstract The beta-feeding probabilities for three important contributors to the decay heat in nuclear reactors, namely Tc-102,Tc-104,Tc-105, have been measured using the total absorption spectroscopy technique. For the measurements, sources of very high isobaric purity have been obtained using a Penning trap (JYFLTRAP). A detailed description of the data analysis is given and the results are compared with high-resolution measurements and theoretical calculations. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.87.044318  
  Address Univ Valencia, CSIC, IFIC, Valencia, Spain, Email: algora@ific.uv.es  
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  ISSN 0556-2813 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000317395300005 Approved no  
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  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1402  
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Author Guastalla, G. et al; Algora, A.; Domingo-Pardo, C. doi  openurl
  Title Coulomb Excitation of Sn-104 and the Strength of the Sn-100 Shell Closure Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2013 Publication Physical Review Letters Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. Lett.  
  Volume 110 Issue 17 Pages 172501 - 5pp  
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  Abstract A measurement of the reduced transition probability for the excitation of the ground state to the first 2(+) state in Sn-104 has been performed using relativistic Coulomb excitation at GSI. Sn-104 is the lightest isotope in the Sn chain for which this quantity has been measured. The result is a key point in the discussion of the evolution of nuclear structure in the proximity of the doubly magic nucleus Sn-100. The value B(E2; 0(+) -> 2(+)) = 0.10(4) e(2)b(2) is significantly lower than earlier results for Sn-106 and heavier isotopes. The result is well reproduced by shell model predictions and therefore indicates a robust N = Z = 50 shell closure.  
  Address Tech Univ Darmstadt, Inst Kernphys, Darmstadt, Germany  
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  Notes WOS:000317915200008 Approved no  
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  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1423  
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