Structure of exotic neutron-rich nuclei studied in radioactive beam experiments
- Supervisor
- Co-supervisor
- Research Group
- Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Physics
- Type
- Experimental
- Techniques used
Fragmentation, gamma-ray spectroscopy, charged particle spectroscopy
- Objectives
- To study neutron-rich nuclei produced in both fragmentation and spallation.
- Obtain information on the evolution of shells with changing neutron number.
Project description
As a result of the recent developments in accelerator technology previously inaccessible nuclear species can be produced at radioactive beam facilities. Such facilities include CERN-ISOLDE (Switzerland), GSI (Germany), GANIL (France).
The study of the structure of such exotic nuclei with very large neutron-to-proton ratio provides information an the very basis of our understanding of nuclear physics: the shell structure and magic numbers. There is increasing evidence to suggest that well known magic numbers disappear and others appear as we add more and more neutrons to a given specie.
The project is to study the structure of such nuclei, obtaining information on the excited states of them for the first time.