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Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 162501 (2007) [4 pages]

Z=50 Shell Gap near 100Sn from Intermediate-Energy Coulomb Excitations in Even-Mass 106-112Sn Isotopes

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C. Vaman1, C. Andreoiu2, D. Bazin1, A. Becerril1,3, B. A. Brown1,3, C. M. Campbell1,3, A. Chester1,3, J. M. Cook1,3, D. C. Dinca1,3, A. Gade1,3, D. Galaviz1, T. Glasmacher1,3, M. Hjorth-Jensen5, M. Horoi6, D. Miller1,3, V. Moeller1,3, W. F. Mueller1, A. Schiller1, K. Starosta1,3, A. Stolz1, J. R. Terry1,3, A. Volya4, V. Zelevinsky1,3, and H. Zwahlen1,3
1National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
2Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
4Physics Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
5Department of Physics and Center of Mathematics for Applications, University of Oslo, N-0316, Oslo, Norway
6Department of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859, USA

Received 22 November 2006; revised 1 August 2007; published 15 October 2007

Rare isotope beams of neutron-deficient 106,108,110Sn from the fragmentation of 124Xe were employed in an intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation experiment. The measured B(E2,01+→21+) values for 108Sn and 110Sn and the results obtained for the 106Sn show that the transition strengths for these nuclei are larger than predicted by current state-of-the-art shell-model calculations. This discrepancy might be explained by contributions of the protons from within the Z=50 shell to the structure of low-energy excited states in this region.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.162501
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.162501
PACS:
25.70.De, 23.20.Js, 23.20.Lv, 27.60.+j