Mass measurements demonstrate a strong N=28 shell gap in argon.

Autor: Meisel Z; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA and Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., George S; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA and Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany., Ahn S; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., Browne J; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA and Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., Bazin D; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA., Brown BA; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., Carpino JF; Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 49008 Michigan, USA., Chung H; Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 49008 Michigan, USA., Cyburt RH; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., Estradé A; School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, EH8 9YL Edinburgh, United Kingdom., Famiano M; Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 49008 Michigan, USA., Gade A; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., Langer C; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., Matoš M; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 70803 Louisiana, USA., Mittig W; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., Montes F; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., Morrissey DJ; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., Pereira J; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., Schatz H; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA and Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., Schatz J; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA., Scott M; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., Shapira D; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, 37831 Tennessee, USA., Smith K; Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA and Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, 46556 Indiana, USA., Stevens J; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA and Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., Tan W; Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, 46556 Indiana, USA., Tarasov O; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA., Towers S; Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 49008 Michigan, USA., Wimmer K; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA., Winkelbauer JR; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA., Yurkon J; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA., Zegers RG; National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Michigan, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA and Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2015 Jan 16; Vol. 114 (2), pp. 022501. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Jan 15.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.022501
Abstrakt: We present results from recent time-of-flight nuclear mass measurements at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. We report the first mass measurements of ^{48}Ar and ^{49}Ar and find atomic mass excesses of -22.28(31)  MeV and -17.8(1.1)  MeV, respectively. These masses provide strong evidence for the closed shell nature of neutron number N=28 in argon, which is therefore the lowest even-Z element exhibiting the N=28 closed shell. The resulting trend in binding-energy differences, which probes the strength of the N=28 shell, compares favorably with shell-model calculations in the sd-pf shell using SDPF-U and SDPF-MU Hamiltonians.
Databáze: MEDLINE