학술논문

Axial and triaxial degrees of freedom in 72Zn
Document Type
article
Source
Physics Letters B, Vol 841, Iss , Pp 137933- (2023)
Subject
Multiple Coulomb excitation
72Zn
N=40 sub-shell closure
Triaxiality
Physics
QC1-999
Language
English
ISSN
0370-2693
Abstract
The unstable N=42 nucleus 72Zn has been studied using multiple safe Coulomb excitation in inverse kinematics. The experiment was performed at the REX-ISOLDE facility at CERN making first use of the silicon detector array C-REX in combination with the γ-ray spectrometer Miniball. The high angular coverage of C-REX allowed to determine the reduced transition strengths for the decay of the yrast 01+, 21+ and 41+ as well as of the 02+ and 22+ states in 72Zn. The quadrupole moments of the 21+, 41+ and 22+ states were extracted. Using model independent quadrupole invariants, the ground state of 72Zn was found to have an average deformation in the γ degree of freedom close to maximum triaxiality. In comparison to experimental data in zinc isotopes with N