Beta Decay Study of the Tz=−2 56Zn Nucleus and the Determination of the Half-Lives of a Few fp-shell Nuclei

B. Rubio, S.E.A. Orrigo, L. Kucuk, A. Montaner-Pizá, Y. Fujita, H. Fujita, B. Blank, W. Gelletly, T. Adachi, J. Agramunt, A. Algora, P. Ascher, B. Bilgier, L. Cáceres, R.B. Cakirli, G. de France, E. Ganioğlu, M. Gerbaux, J. Giovinazzo, S. GrevyO. Kamalou, H.C. Kozer, T. Kurtukian-Nieto, F.M. Marqués, F. Molina, Y. Oktem, F. de Oliveira Santos, L. Perrot, Lucia Popescu, R. Raabe, A.M. Rogers, P.C. Srivastava, G. Susoy, T. Suzuki, A. Tamii, J.C. Thomas, Marc Schyns

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    Abstract

    This paper concerns the experimental study of the beta-decay properties of a few proton-rich fp -shell nuclei. The nuclei were produced at GANIL in fragmentation reactions, separated with the LISE spectrometer and stopped in an implantation detector surrounded by Ge detectors. The beta-delayed gammas, beta-delayed protons and the exotic beta-delayed gamma-proton emission have been studied. Preliminary results are presented. The decay of the Tz=−2 nucleus 56Zn has been studied in detail. Information from the beta-delayed protons and beta-delayed gammas has been used to deduce the decay scheme. The exotic beta-delayed gamma-proton decay has been observed for the first time in the fp-shell. The interpretation of the data was made possible thanks to the detailed knowledge of the mirror Charge Exchange (CE) process and the gamma de-excitation of the states in 56Co, the mirror nucleus of 56Cu.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)37-40
    JournalNuclear Data Sheets
    Volume120
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jun 2014
    Event2013 - International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology - New York
    Duration: 4 Mar 20138 Mar 2013

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