Mirror energy differences above the 0f7/2 shell: First γ-ray spectroscopy of the Tz = −2 nucleus 56Zn

Excited states in 56Zn were populated following one-neutron removal from a 57Zn beam impinging on a Be target at intermediate energies in an experiment conducted at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN. Three γ rays were observed and tentatively assigned to the 6+→4+→2+→0+ yrast sequence. T...

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Main Authors: A. Fernández, A. Jungclaus, P. Doornenbal, M.A. Bentley, S.M. Lenzi, D. Rudolph, F. Browne, M.L. Cortés, T. Koiwai, R. Taniuchi, V. Vaquero, K. Wimmer, T. Arici, N. Imai, N. Kitamura, B. Longfellow, R. Lozeva, B. Mauss, D.R. Napoli, M. Niikura, X. Pereira-Lopez, S. Pigliapoco, A. Poves, F. Recchia, P. Ruotsalainen, H. Sakurai, S. Uthayakumaar, R. Wadsworth, R. Yajzey
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Language:EN
Published: Elsevier 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/f3f24652e2ec43cfbfde50efe285d839
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Summary:Excited states in 56Zn were populated following one-neutron removal from a 57Zn beam impinging on a Be target at intermediate energies in an experiment conducted at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN. Three γ rays were observed and tentatively assigned to the 6+→4+→2+→0+ yrast sequence. This turns 56Zn into the heaviest Tz=−2 nucleus in which excited states are known. The excitation-energy differences between these levels and the isobaric analogue states in the Tz=+2 mirror partner, 56Fe, are compared with large-scale shell-model calculations considering the full pf valence space and various isospin-breaking contributions. This comparison, together with an analysis of the mirror energy differences in the A=58, Tz=±1 pair 58Zn and 58Ni, provides valuable information with respect to the size of the monopole radial and the isovector multipole isospin-breaking terms in the region above doubly-magic 56Ni.