Physics Letters B (Jul 2018)

Proton single particle energies next to 78Ni: Spectroscopy of 77Cu via single proton knock-out reaction

  • Zs. Vajta,
  • D. Sohler,
  • Y. Shiga,
  • K. Yoneda,
  • K. Sieja,
  • D. Steppenbeck,
  • Zs. Dombrádi,
  • N. Aoi,
  • P. Doornenbal,
  • J. Lee,
  • H. Liu,
  • M. Matsushita,
  • S. Takeuchi,
  • H. Wang,
  • H. Baba,
  • P. Bednarczyk,
  • Zs. Fülöp,
  • S. Go,
  • T. Hashimoto,
  • E. Ideguchi,
  • K. Ieki,
  • K. Kobayashi,
  • Y. Kondo,
  • R. Minakata,
  • T. Motobayashi,
  • D. Nishimura,
  • H. Otsu,
  • H. Sakurai,
  • Y. Sun,
  • A. Tamaii,
  • R. Tanaka,
  • Z. Tian,
  • T. Yamamoto,
  • X. Yang,
  • Z. Yang,
  • Y. Ye,
  • R. Yokoyama,
  • J. Zenihiro

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 782
pp. 99 – 103

Abstract

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Excited states of 77Cu have been investigated by use of single proton knock-out reaction at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory in RIKEN in order to reveal the main components of the proton single-particle states. Three excited states were observed at 271, 902 and 2068 keV in 77Cu. The lowest-energy excited state follows the trend predicted for the crossing of the 3/21− and 5/21− states. Comparing the excitation energies of the 3/2−, 5/2− and 7/2− levels from 69Cu to 77Cu one can see that the Z=28 shell gap between the p3/2 and f7/2 states is rather stable, while the f5/2−f7/2 spin–orbit splitting decreases by ∼1.5 MeV in agreement with shell model calculations using the tensor force.