Spectroscopy of the odd-odd fp-shell nucleus Sc52 from secondary fragmentation

A. Gade, R. V F Janssens, D. Bazin, B. A. Brown, C. M. Campbell, M. P. Carpenter, J. M. Cook, A. N. Deacon, D. C. Dinca, S. J. Freeman, T. Glasmacher, B. P. Kay, P. F. Mantica, W. F. Mueller, J. R. Terry, S. Zhu

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    Abstract

    The odd-odd fp-shell nucleus Sc52 was investigated using in-beam γ-ray spectroscopy following secondary fragmentation of a V55 and Cr57 cocktail beam. Aside from the known γ-ray transition at 674(5) keV, a new decay at Eγ=212(3) keV was observed. It is attributed to the depopulation of a low-lying excited level. This new state is discussed in the framework of shell-model calculations with the GXPF1, GXPF1A, and KB3G effective interactions. These calculations are found to be fairly robust for the low-lying level scheme of Sc52 irrespective of the choice of the effective interaction. In addition, the frequency of spin values predicted by the shell model is successfully modeled by a spin distribution formulated in a statistical approach with an empirical, energy-independent spin-cutoff parameter. © 2006 The American Physical Society.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number037309
    JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
    Volume73
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2006

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