%0 Journal Article
%T Nature of seniority symmetry breaking in the semimagic nucleus Ru-94
%A Das, B. et al
%A Algora, A.
%J Physical Review C
%D 2022
%V 105
%N 3
%I Amer Physical Soc
%@ 2469-9985
%G English
%F Das+Algora2022
%O WOS:000782895300004
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=5199), last updated on Wed, 27 Apr 2022 07:50:32 +0000
%X Direct lifetime measurements via gamma -gamma coincidences using a fast timing detector array consisting of LaBr3(Ce) scintillators has been applied to determine the lifetime of low-lying states in the semimagic (N = 50) nucleus Ru-94. The experiment was carried out as the first in a series of "FAIR-0" experiments with the DESPEC experimental setup at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR). Excited states in Ru-94 were populated primarily via the beta-delayed proton emission of Pd-95 nuclei, produced in the projectile fragmentation of an 850 MeV/nucleon Xe-124 beam impinging on a 4 g/cm(2) Be-9 target. While the deduced E2 strength for the 2(+) -> 0(+) transition in the yrast cascade follows the expected behavior for conserved seniority symmetry, the intermediate 4(+) -> 2(+) transition exhibits a drastic enhancement of transition strength in comparison with pure-seniority model predictions as well as standard shell model predictions in the f pg proton hole space with respect to doubly magic Sn-100. The anomalous behavior is ascribed to a subtle interference between the wave function of the lowest seniority v = 2, I-pi = 4(+) state and that of a close-lying v = 4 state that exhibits partial dynamic symmetry. In addition, the observed strongly prohibitive 6(+) -> 4(+) transition can be attributed to the same mechanism but with a destructive interference. It is noted that such effects may provide stringent tests of the nucleon-nucleon interactions employed in state-of-the-art theoretical model calculations.
%R 10.1103/PhysRevC.105.L031304
%U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.105.L031304
%P L031304 - 6pp