Joakim Cederkäll
Professor
Nuclear-structure studies of exotic nuclei with MINIBALL
Author
Summary, in English
High-resolution γ-ray spectroscopy has been established at ISOLDE for nuclear-structure and nuclear-reaction studies with reaccelerated radioactive ion beams provided by the REX-ISOLDE facility. The MINIBALL spectrometer comprises 24 six-fold segmented, encapsulated high-purity germanium crystals. It was specially designed for highest γ-ray detection efficiency which is advantageous for low-intensity radioactive ion beams. The MINIBALL array has been used in numerous Coulomb-excitation and transfer-reaction experiments with exotic ion beams of energies up to 3 MeV A-1. The physics case covers a wide range of topics which are addressed with beams ranging from neutron-rich magnesium isotopes up to heavy radium isotopes. In the future the HIE-ISOLDE will allow the in-beam γ-ray spectroscopy program to proceed with higher secondary-beam intensity, higher beam energy and better beam quality.
Department/s
- Nuclear physics
Publishing year
2017-03-09
Language
English
Publication/Series
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Volume
44
Issue
4
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Keywords
- nuclear shapes
- nuclear structure
- shell model
- γ-ray spectroscopy
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0954-3899