%0 Journal Article %T Lifetime measurements of excited states in neutron-rich Ar-44,Ar-46 populated via a multinucleon transfer reaction %A Mengoni, D. et al %A Gadea, A. %A Algora, A. %A Rubio, B. %J Physical Review C %D 2010 %V 82 %N 2 %I Amer Physical Soc %@ 0556-2813 %G English %F Mengoni_etal2010 %O ISI:000280759100002 %O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=394), last updated on Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:33:42 +0000 %X Lifetimes of low-lying excited states of the neutron-rich Ar-44,Ar-46 nuclei, populated via multinucleon transfer reactions, are measured by means of the differential recoil distance Doppler shift method. The extracted electromagnetic transition probabilities are compared with previous intermediate-energy Coulomb-excitation measurements and with large-scale shell-model calculations. The increase in the deduced B( E2; 2(+) -> 0(+)) transition probability from Ar-44 to the closed-shell nucleus Ar-46 contradicts the earlier results of Coulomb-excitation experiments. Shell-model calculations using different effective interactions agree with the new measured values. %R 10.1103/PhysRevC.82.024308 %U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.82.024308 %P 024308-7pp