Shape coexistence in atomic nuclei

K Heyde, JL Wood - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
Shape coexistence in nuclei appears to be unique in the realm of finite many-body quantum
systems. It differs from the various geometrical arrangements that sometimes occur in a …

Radioactive decays at limits of nuclear stability

M Pfützner, M Karny, LV Grigorenko, K Riisager - Reviews of modern physics, 2012 - APS
The last decades brought impressive progress in synthesizing and studying properties of
nuclides located very far from the beta stability line. Among the most fundamental properties …

Termination of rotational bands: disappearance of quantum many-body collectivity

AV Afanasjev, DB Fossan, GJ Lane, I Ragnarsson - Physics reports, 1999 - Elsevier
One of the most interesting features of nuclei is the process by which specific configurations,
manifest as collective rotational bands at intermediate spin values, gradually lose their …

The GREAT triggerless total data readout method

I Lazarus, EE Appelbe, PA Butler… - … on Nuclear Science, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recoil decay tagging (RDT) is a very powerful method for the spectroscopy of exotic nuclei.
RDT is a delayed coincidence technique between detectors usually at the target position …

The GREAT spectrometer

RD Page, AN Andreyev, DE Appelbe, PA Butler… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2003 - Elsevier
The GREAT spectrometer is designed to measure the decay properties of reaction products
transported to the focal plane of a recoil separator. GREAT comprises a system of silicon …

Review of metastable states in heavy nuclei

GD Dracoulis, PM Walker… - Reports on Progress in …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The structure of nuclear isomeric states is reviewed in the context of their role in
contemporary nuclear physics research. Emphasis is given to high-spin isomers in heavy …

Nuclear magnetic and quadrupole moments for nuclear structure research on exotic nuclei

G Neyens - Reports on progress in physics, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the key issues in current nuclear physics research is to investigate the properties of
so-calledexotic nuclei'and ofexotic nuclear structures'. Exotic nuclei are nuclei with a proton …

Nuclear structure at the proton drip line: Advances with nuclear decay studies

B Blank, MJG Borge - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2008 - Elsevier
The study of nuclear decay modes reveals a large panel of nuclear structure phenomena
and allows us to investigate the behaviour of the atomic nucleus with an extreme imbalance …

Grain—a java data analysis system for total data readout

P Rahkila - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research …, 2008 - Elsevier
Grain is a data analysis system developed to be used with the novel Total Data Readout
data acquisition system. In Total Data Readout all the electronics channels are read out …

Nuclei beyond the proton drip-line

PJ Woods, CN Davids - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 1997 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The proton drip-line defines the limit at which nuclei become unbound to the
emission of a proton from their ground states. Low-Z nuclei lying beyond this limit only exist …