Laser spectroscopy for the study of exotic nuclei

XF Yang, SJ Wang, SG Wilkins, RFG Ruiz - Progress in Particle and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Investigation into the properties and structure of unstable nuclei far from stability is a key
avenue of research in modern nuclear physics. These efforts are motivated by the continual …

Charge radii of exotic potassium isotopes challenge nuclear theory and the magic character of N = 32

Á Koszorús, XF Yang, WG Jiang, SJ Novario, SW Bai… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Nuclear charge radii are sensitive probes of different aspects of the nucleon–nucleon
interaction and the bulk properties of nuclear matter, providing a stringent test and challenge …

Nuclear Charge Radii of the Nickel Isotopes

S Malbrunot-Ettenauer, S Kaufmann, S Bacca… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Collinear laser spectroscopy is performed on the nickel isotopes Ni 58-68, 70, using a time-
resolved photon counting system. From the measured isotope shifts, nuclear charge radii R …

Measurement and microscopic description of odd–even staggering of charge radii of exotic copper isotopes

RP De Groote, J Billowes, CL Binnersley, ML Bissell… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Nuclear charge radii globally scale with atomic mass number A as A 1∕ 3, and isotopes
with an odd number of neutrons are usually slightly smaller in size than their even-neutron …

Charge Radii of Reveal a Surprisingly Similar Behavior at in Ca and Ni Isotopes

F Sommer, K König, DM Rossi, N Everett, D Garand… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Nuclear charge radii of Ni 55, 56 were measured by collinear laser spectroscopy. The
obtained information completes the behavior of the charge radii at the shell closure of the …

Surprising Charge-Radius Kink in the Sc Isotopes at

K König, S Fritzsche, G Hagen, JD Holt, A Klose… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Charge radii of neutron deficient Sc 40 and Sc 41 nuclei were determined using collinear
laser spectroscopy. With the new data, the chain of Sc charge radii extends below the …

Laser Spectroscopy of Neutron-Rich Isotopes: Illuminating the Kink and Odd-Even Staggering in Charge Radii across the Shell Closure

T Day Goodacre, AV Afanasjev, AE Barzakh, BA Marsh… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
The mean-square charge radii of Hg 207, 208 (Z= 80, N= 127, 128) have been studied for
the first time and those of Hg 202, 203, 206 (N= 122, 123, 126) remeasured by the …

Large shape staggering in neutron-deficient Bi isotopes

A Barzakh, AN Andreyev, C Raison, JG Cubiss… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
The changes in the mean-square charge radius (relative to Bi 209), magnetic dipole, and
electric quadrupole moments of Bi 187, 188, 189, 191 were measured using the in-source …

Charge radii in covariant density functional theory: A global view

UC Perera, AV Afanasjev, P Ring - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
A systematic global investigation of differential charge radii has been performed within the
CDFT framework for the first time. Theoretical results obtained with conventional covariant …

Novel Bayesian neural network based approach for nuclear charge radii

XX Dong, R An, JX Lu, LS Geng - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Charge radius is one of the most fundamental properties of a nucleus. However, a precise
description of the evolution of charge radii along an isotopic chain is highly nontrivial, as …