Physics Letters B (Feb 2017)

Type II shell evolution in A=70 isobars from the N≥40 island of inversion

  • A.I. Morales,
  • G. Benzoni,
  • H. Watanabe,
  • Y. Tsunoda,
  • T. Otsuka,
  • S. Nishimura,
  • F. Browne,
  • R. Daido,
  • P. Doornenbal,
  • Y. Fang,
  • G. Lorusso,
  • Z. Patel,
  • S. Rice,
  • L. Sinclair,
  • P.-A. Söderström,
  • T. Sumikama,
  • J. Wu,
  • Z.Y. Xu,
  • A. Yagi,
  • R. Yokoyama,
  • H. Baba,
  • R. Avigo,
  • F.L. Bello Garrote,
  • N. Blasi,
  • A. Bracco,
  • F. Camera,
  • S. Ceruti,
  • F.C.L. Crespi,
  • G. de Angelis,
  • M.-C. Delattre,
  • Zs. Dombradi,
  • A. Gottardo,
  • T. Isobe,
  • I. Kojouharov,
  • N. Kurz,
  • I. Kuti,
  • K. Matsui,
  • B. Melon,
  • D. Mengoni,
  • T. Miyazaki,
  • V. Modamio-Hoybjor,
  • S. Momiyama,
  • D.R. Napoli,
  • M. Niikura,
  • R. Orlandi,
  • H. Sakurai,
  • E. Sahin,
  • D. Sohler,
  • H. Schaffner,
  • R. Taniuchi,
  • J. Taprogge,
  • Zs. Vajta,
  • J.J. Valiente-Dobón,
  • O. Wieland,
  • M. Yalcinkaya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.12.025
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 765, no. C
pp. 328 – 333

Abstract

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The level structures of 70Co and 70Ni, populated from the β decay of 70Fe, have been investigated using β-delayed γ-ray spectroscopy following in-flight fission of a 238U beam. The experimental results are compared to Monte-Carlo Shell-Model calculations including the pf+g9/2+d5/2 orbitals. The strong population of a (1+) state at 274 keV in 70Co is at variance with the expected excitation energy of ∼1 MeV from near spherical single-particle estimates. This observation indicates a dominance of prolate-deformed intruder configurations in the low-lying levels, which coexist with the normal near spherical states. It is shown that the β decay of the neutron-rich A=70 isobars from the new island of inversion to the Z=28 closed-shell regime progresses in accordance with a newly reported type of shell evolution, the so-called Type II, which involves many particle-hole excitations across energy gaps.