Charge radii, moments, and masses of mercury isotopes across the N=126 shell closure

  • Thomas Day Goodacre
  • , A.V. Afanasjev
  • , Anatoly (A.E.) Barzakh
  • , L. Nies
  • , Bruce A Marsh
  • , Simon Sels
  • , U. Perera
  • , P. Ring
  • , Frank Wienholtz
  • , Andrei N. Andreyev
  • , Piet Van Duppen
  • , Numa A. Althubiti
  • , Boris Andel
  • , Dimitar Atanasov
  • , Ricardo Manuel Dos Santos Augusto
  • , Jonathan Billowes
  • , Klaus Blaum
  • , Thomas Elias Cocolios
  • , Cubiss James G.
  • , Gregory James Farooq-Smith
  • Dmitry V. Fedorov, Valentin N. Fedosseev, Kieran T. Flanagan, Liam Paul Gaffney, Lars Ghys, Alexander Gottberg, Mark Huyse, S. Kreim, João Pedro Fernandes Pinto Ramos

Research outputpeer-review

Abstract

Combining laser spectroscopy in a Versatile Arc Discharge and Laser Ion Source (VADLIS) with Penning-trap mass spectrometry at the CERN-ISOLDE facility, this work reports on mean-square charge radii of neutron-rich mercury isotopes across the N=126 shell closure, the electromagnetic moments of 207Hg, and more precise mass values of 206–208Hg. The odd-even staggering (OES) of the mean square charge radii and the kink at N=126 are analyzed within the framework of covariant density functional theory (CDFT), with comparisons between different functionals to investigate the dependence of the results on the underlying single-particle structure. The observed features are defined predominantly in the particle-hole channel in CDFT, since both are present in the calculations without pairing. However, the magnitude of the kink is still affected by the occupation of the ν1i11/2 and ν2g9/2 orbitals with a dependence on the relative energies as well as pairing.
Original languageEnglish
Article number054322
Pages (from-to)1-18
Number of pages18
JournalPhysical Review C
Volume104
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Nov 2021

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