Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

4D-imaging of drip-line radioactivity by detecting proton emission from 54mNi pictured with ACTAR TPC

  • J. Giovinazzo,
  • T. Roger,
  • B. Blank,
  • D. Rudolph,
  • B. A. Brown,
  • H. Alvarez-Pol,
  • A. Arokia Raj,
  • P. Ascher,
  • M. Caamaño-Fresco,
  • L. Caceres,
  • D. M. Cox,
  • B. Fernández-Domínguez,
  • J. Lois-Fuentes,
  • M. Gerbaux,
  • S. Grévy,
  • G. F. Grinyer,
  • O. Kamalou,
  • B. Mauss,
  • A. Mentana,
  • J. Pancin,
  • J. Pibernat,
  • J. Piot,
  • O. Sorlin,
  • C. Stodel,
  • J.-C. Thomas,
  • M. Versteegen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24920-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Proton radioactivity is useful for studying nuclear structure. Here the authors report two proton emission branches from the 10+ state isomer of 54mNi by using a time projection chamber.