| Abstract |
ACoulomb-excitation experiment to study electromagnetic properties of Ca-42 was performed using a 170-MeV calcium beam from the TANDEM XPU facility at INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro. gamma rays from excited states in Ca-42 were measured with the AGATA spectrometer. The magnitudes and relative signs of ten E2 matrix elements coupling six low-lying states in Ca-42, including the diagonal E2 matrix elements of 2(1)(+) and 2(2)(+) states, were determined using the least-squares code GOSIA. The obtained set of reduced E2 matrix elements was analyzed using the quadrupole sum rule method and yielded overall quadrupole deformation for 0(1),(+)(2) and 2(1,2)(+) states, as well as triaxiality for 0(1,2)(+) states, establishing the coexistence of a weakly deformed ground-state band and highly deformed slightly triaxial sideband in Ca-42. The experimental results were compared with the state-of-the-art large-scale shell-model and beyond-mean-field calculations, which reproduce well the general picture of shape coexistence in Ca-42. |
| Address |
[Hadynska-Klek, K.; Napiorkowski, P. J.; Zielinska, M.; Srebrny, J.; Abraham, T.; Iwanicki, J.; Jaworski, G.; Kisielinski, M.; Komorowska, M.; Kowalczyk, M.; Ozmen, S. F.; Palacz, M.; Prochniak, L.; Rusek, K.; Wrzosek-Lipska, K.] Univ Warsaw, Heavy Ion Lab, Pasteura 5A, PL-02093 Warsaw, Poland, Email: katarzyna.hadynska@lnl.infn.it |
