Two-proton radioactivity: The interesting case of 67kr and further studies: The interesting case of 67kr and further studies

J. Giovinazzo, T. Goigoux, B. Blank, P. Ascher, M. Gerbaux, S. Grévy, T. Kurtukian-Nieto, C. Magron, P. Doornenbal, N. Fukuda, N. Inabe, G. G. Kiss, T. Kubo, S. Kubono, S. Nishimura, H. Sakurai, Y. Shimizu, C. Sidong, P. A. Söderström, T. SumikamaH. Suzuki, H. Takeda, P. Vi, J. Wu, D. S. Ahn, J. Agramunt, A. Algora, V. Guadilla, A. Montaner-Piza, A. I. Morales, S. E.A. Orrigo, B. Rubio, Y. Fujita, M. Tanaka, W. Gelletly, P. Aguilera, F. Molina, F. Diel, D. Lubos, G. De Angelis, D. Napoli, C. Borcea, A. Boso, R. B. Cakirli, E. Ganioglu, J. Chiba, D. Nishimura, H. Oikawa, Y. Takei, S. Yagi, K. Wimmer, G. De France, S. Go, B. A. Brown

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Abstract

We report on the observation of 67Kr that has been produced in an experiment performed at the RIKEN/BigRIPS facility. The two-proton decay of 67Kr has been evidenced and this nucleus is thus the fourth observed long lived ground-state two-proton emitter, after 45Fe, 48Ni and 54Zn. In addition, the decay of several isotopes in the mass region has been investigated. While for previous cases of two-proton radioactivity, the theoretical models could reproduce the measured data, this is not the case anymore for 67Kr. Two interpretations have been proposed to explain this discrepancy: A transition between real two-proton and sequential decay or the influence of deformation. These hypotheses will be tested in future experiments by measuring the angular and energy correlations of the emitted protons.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)577-585
Number of pages9
JournalActa Physica Polonica B
Volume51
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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