Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Evidence of a sudden increase in the nuclear size of proton-rich silver-96

  • M. Reponen,
  • R. P. de Groote,
  • L. Al Ayoubi,
  • O. Beliuskina,
  • M. L. Bissell,
  • P. Campbell,
  • L. Cañete,
  • B. Cheal,
  • K. Chrysalidis,
  • C. Delafosse,
  • A. de Roubin,
  • C. S. Devlin,
  • T. Eronen,
  • R. F. Garcia Ruiz,
  • S. Geldhof,
  • W. Gins,
  • M. Hukkanen,
  • P. Imgram,
  • A. Kankainen,
  • M. Kortelainen,
  • Á. Koszorús,
  • S. Kujanpää,
  • R. Mathieson,
  • D. A. Nesterenko,
  • I. Pohjalainen,
  • M. Vilén,
  • A. Zadvornaya,
  • I. D. Moore

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24888-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Laser spectroscopic measurements of isotopes near the doubly-magic 100-Sn are challenging due to difficulties in their production. Here the authors measure the ground state charge radius of the proton-rich 96-Ag isotope and find a discontinuity in the nuclear size when crossing the neutron number N equal to 50.