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Selected Publications: 2020 datelines

 

Prompt and delayed γ spectroscopy of neutron-rich 94Kr and observation of a new isomer
R.-B. Gerst et al.
Physical Review C 102, 064323 (2020) Published 24 December 2020

 

Production of transuranium isotopes in 20Ne-induced incomplete fusion reactions
Rafael Van den Bossche, Alexis Diaz-Torres
Physical Review C 102, 064618 (2020) Published 21 December 2020

 

Three-nucleon force contribution to the deuteron channel in (d,p) reactions
N. K. Timofeyuk, M. J. Dinmore, J. S. Al-Khalili
Physical Review C 102, 064616 (2020) Published 18 December 2020

 

Few bosons to many bosons inside the unitary window: A transition between
universal and nonuniversal behavior
A. Kievsky, A. Polls, B. Juliá-Díaz, N. K. Timofeyuk, M. Gattobigio
Physical Review A 102, 063320 (2020) Published 17 December 2020

 

Determination of β-decay ground state feeding of nuclei of importance for
reactor applications
V. Guadilla, J.L. Tain, A. Algora, J. Agramunt, D. Jordan, M. Monserrate, A. Montaner-Pizá,
S.E.A. Orrigo, B. Rubio, E. Valencia, J.A. Briz, A. Cucoanes, M. Estienne, M. Fallot, L.
Le Meur, A. Porta, T. Shiba, A.-A. Zakari-Issoufou, J. Äystö, T. Eronen, D. Gorelov, J.
Hakala, A. Jokinen, A. Kankainen, V.S. Kolhinen, J. Koponen, I.D. Moore, H. Penttilä,
I. Pohjalainen, J. Reinikainen, M. Reponen, S. Rinta-Antila, K. Rytkönen, V. Sonnenschein,
A. Voss, L.M. Fraile, V. Vedia, E. Ganioğlu, W. Gelletly, M. Lebois, J.N. Wilson, T. Martinez,
E. Nácher, A.A. Sonzogni
Physical Review C 102, 064304 (2020) Published 2 December 2020

 

Population of lead isotopes in binary reactions using a 94Rb radioactive beam
P. Čolović, S. Szilner, A. Illana, J. J. Valiente-Dobón, L. Corradi, G. Pollarolo, T.
Mijatović, A. Goasduff, G. Benzoni, M. J. G. Borge, A. Boso, A. Boukhari, S. Ceruti,
J. G. Cubiss, G. de Angelis, H. De Witte, E. Fioretto, Ch. Fransen, F. Galtarossa,
L. P. Gaffney, E. Giannopoulos, H. Hess, M. L. Jurado-Gomez, L. Kaya, Th. Kröll,
T. Marchi, R. Menegazzo, D. Mengoni, D. R. Napoli, G. O'Neill, J. Pakarinen1,
Zs. Podolyák, F. Recchia, P. Reiter, D. Rosiak, J. Snall, P. Spagnoletti, D. Testov,
S. Thiel, N. Warr, R. Zidarova
Physical Review C 102, 054609 (2020) Published 19 November 2020

 

Lifetime measurements in the odd-A nucleus 177Hf
L. Knafla, P. Alexa, U. Köster, G. Thiamova, J.-M. Régis, J. Jolie, A. Blanc, A. M. Bruce,
A. Esmaylzadeh, L. M. Fraile, G. de France, G. Häfner, S. Ilieva, M. Jentschel, V.
Karayonchev, W. Korten, T. Kröll, S. Lalkovski, S. Leoni, H. Mach, N. Mărginean,
P. Mutti, G. Pascovici, V. Paziy, Zs. Podolyák, P. H. Regan, O. J. Roberts, N.
Saed-Samii, G. S. Simpson,18, J. F. Smith, T. Soldner, C. Townsley, C. A. Ur,
W. Urban, A. Vancraeyenest, N. Warr
Physical Review C 102, 054322 (2020) Published 16 November 2020

 

Structure of 30Mg explored via in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy
N. Kitamura, K. Wimmer, N. Shimizu, V. M. Bader, C. Bancroft, D. Barofsky,
T. Baugher, D. Bazin, J. S. Berryman, V. Bildstein, A. Gade, N. Imai, T. Kroll,
C. Langer, J. Lloyd, E. Lunderberg, G. Perdikakis, F. Recchia, T. Redpath,
S. Saenz, D. Smalley, S. R. Stroberg, J. A. Tostevin, N. Tsunoda, Y. Utsuno,
D. Weisshaar, A. Westerberg

Physical Review C 102, 054318 (2020) Published 12 November 2020

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06252

 

Measurement and analysis of the isomeric cross section ratios for the 94Tc nucleus
G. S. Li, Y. D. Fang, X. H. Zhou, A. Diaz-Torres, A. Rohilla, M. L. Liu, N. T. Zhang,
Y. H. Zhang, J. G. Wang, B. S. Gao, Y. H. Qiang, S. Guo, S. C. Wang, Y. Zheng,
J. Lubian, H. O. Soler
Physical Review C 102, 054607 (2020) Published 12 November 2020

 

Properties of 187Ta Revealed through Isomeric Decay
P. M. Walker, Y. Hirayama, G. J. Lane, H. Watanabe, G. D. Dracoulis, M. Ahmed,
M. Brunet, T. Hashimoto, S. Ishizawa, F. G. Kondev, Yu. A. Litvinov, H. Miyatake,
J. Y. Moon, M. Mukai, T. Niwase, J. H. Park, Zs. Podolyák, M. Rosenbusch,
P. Schury, M. Wada, X. Y. Watanabe, W. Y. Liang, F. R. Xu
Physical Review Letters 125, 192505 (2020) Published 6 November 2020

 

Quadrupole deformation of 130Xe measured in a Coulomb-excitation experiment
L. Morrison, K. Hadyńska-Klȩk, Zs. Podolyák, D. T. Doherty, L. P. Gaffney, L. Kaya,
L. Próchniak, J. Samorajczyk-Pyśk, J. Srebrny, T. Berry, A. Boukhari, M. Brunet, R.
Canavan, R. Catherall, S. J. Colosimo, J. G. Cubiss, H. De Witte, Ch. Fransen, E.
Giannopoulos,4, H. Hess, T. Kröll, N. Lalović, B. Marsh, Y. Martinez Palenzuela,
P. J. Napiorkowski, G. O'Neill, J. Pakarinen, J. P. Ramos, P. Reiter, J. A. Rodriguez,
D. Rosiak, S. Rothe, M. Rudigier, M. Siciliano, J. Snäll, P. Spagnoletti, S. Thiel,
N. Warr, F. Wenander, R. Zidarova, M. Zielińska
Physical Review C 102, 054304 (2020) Published 3 November 2020

 

Competition between Allowed and First-Forbidden β Decay: The Case
of 208Hg208Tl,
R.J. Carroll, Zs. Podolyák, T. Berry, H. Grawe, T. Alexander, A.N. Andreyev, S.
Ansari, M.J.G. Borge, M. Brunet, J.R. Creswell, L.M. Fraile, C. Fahlander,
H.O.U. Fynbo, E.R. Gamba, W. Gelletly, R.-B. Gerst, M. Górska, A. Gredley,
P.T. Greenlees, L.J. Harkness-Brennan, M. Huyse, S.M. Judge, D.S. Judson,
J. Konki, J. Kurcewicz, I. Kuti1, S. Lalkovski, I.H. Lazarus, R. Lică, M. Lund, M.
Madurga, N. Marginean, R. Marginean, I. Marroquin, C. Mihai1, R.E. Mihai1, E.
Nácher, A. Negret, C. Nita, S. Pascu, R.D. Page, Z. Patel, A. Perea1, J. Phrompao,
M. Piersa, V. Pucknell, P. Rahkila, E. Rapisarda, P.H. Regan, F. Rotaru, M. Rudigier,
C. M. Shand, R. Shearman, S. Stegemann, T. Stora, Ch. Sotty, O. Tengblad, P.
Van Duppen, V. Vedia, R. Wadsworth, P.M. Walker, N. Warr, F. Wearing, H. De Witte
Physical Review Letters 125, 192501 (2020) Published 2 November 2020

 

Reexamining the relation between the binding energy of finite nuclei and
the equation of state of infinite nuclear matter
M. C. Atkinson, W. H. Dickhoff, M. Piarulli, A. Rios, R. B. Wiringa
Physical Review C 102, 044333 (2020) Published 30 October 2020

 

Ab Initio Computation of Charge Densities for Sn and Xe Isotopes
P. Arthuis, C. Barbieri, M. Vorabbi, P. Finelli
Physical Review Letters 125, 182501 (2020) Published 28 October 2020

 

Single-nucleon knockout cross sections for reactions producing resonance

states at or beyond the drip line

R.J. Charity, L. G. Sobotka, J. A. Tostevin

Physical Review C 102, 044614 (2020) Published 20 October 2020

 

Machine learning the deuteron

J.W.T. Keeble, A.Rios

Physics Letters B 809,135743 (2020) Published 10 October 2020

https://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/858610/

 

Shell structure of 43S and collapse of the N = 28 shell closure
S. Momiyama, K. Wimmer, D. Bazin, J. Belarge, P. Bender, B. Elman, A. Gade,
K. W. Kemper, N. Kitamura, B. Longfellow, E. Lunderberg, M. Niikura, S. Ota,
P. Schrock, J. A. Tostevin, D. Weisshaar

Physical Review C 102, 034325 (2020) Published 25 September 2020

https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00765

https://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/858608/ 

 

Spectroscopy of 30P and the abundance of 29Si in presolar grains
G. Lotay, D. T. Doherty, D. Seweryniak, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. F. Janssens,
J. José, A. M. Rogers, P. J. Woods, S. Zhu
Physical Review C 102, 035804 (2020) Published 22 September 2020

 

Isomeric and collective structures in neutron-rich hafnium isotopes
F. Amirzadeh, A. Kardan, P. M. Walker, Hai-Liang Ma
Physical Review C 102, 034319 (2020) Published 16 September 2020
 
Single-particle structure in neutron-rich Sr isotopes approaching the N=60
shape transition
S. Cruz et al.
Physical Review C 102, 024335 (2020) Published 31 August 2020

 

The structure of 33Si and the magicity of the N=20 gap at Z=14
S. Jongile, A. Lemasson, O. Sorlin, M. Wiedeking, P. Papka, D. Bazin, C. Borcea,
R. Borcea, A. Gade, H. Iwasaki, E. Khan, A. Lepailleur, A. Mutschler, F. Nowacki,
F. Recchia, T. Roger, F. Rotaru, M. Stanoiu, S. R. Stroberg, J. A. Tostevin,
M. Vandebrouck, D. Weisshaar, K. Wimmer

Physical Review C 102, 024321 (2020) Published 18 August 2020

https://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/858326/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08297

 

Decay studies of the long-lived states in 186Tl
M. Stryjczyk et al. (IDS Collaboration)
Physical Review C 102, 024322 (2020) Published 18 August 2020

 

A high-resolution β−γ coincidence spectrometry system for radioxenon measurements

Goodwin, M.A, Britton, R., Davies, A.V., Bell, S.J., Collins, S.M and Regan, P.H

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A 978, 164452 (2020)

https://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/858358/

 

Isomeric and β-decay spectroscopy of 173,174Ho
J. J. Liu, J. Lee, H. Watanabe, S. Nishimura, G. X. Zhang, J. Wu, P. M. Walker,
P. H. Regan, P.-A. Söderström, H. Kanaoka, Z. Korkulu, P. S. Lee et al.
Physical Review C 102, 024301 (2020) Published 3 August 2020

 

In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy at the proton dripline: 40Sc
A. Gade, D. Weisshaar, B. A. Brown, J. A. Tostevin, D. Bazin, K. Brown, R. J. Charity,

P. J. Farris, M. Hill, J. Li, B. Longfellow, W. Reviol, D. Rhodes, L. G. Sobotka

Physics Letters B 808, 135637 (2020) – Published online 22 July 2020

https://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/858250/

 

Examining the N=28 shell closure through high-precision mass measurements of
46-48Ar, M. Mougeot, D. Atanasov, C. Barbieri, K. Blaum, M. Breitenfeld, A. de Roubin,
T. Duguet, S. George, F. Herfurth, A. Herlert, J. D. Holt, J. Karthein, D. Lunney,
V. Manea, P. Navrátil, D. Neidherr, M. Rosenbusch, L. Schweikhard, A. Schwenk,
V. Somŕ, A. Welker, F. Wienholtz, R. N. Wolf, K. Zuber
Physical Review C 102, 014301 (2020) Published 1 July 2020

 

Sequential Nature of (p,3p) Two-Proton Knockout from Neutron-Rich Nuclei
A. Frotscher et al.
Physical Review Letters 124, 012501 (2020) Published 30 June 2020

 

Search for Nova Presolar Grains: γ-Ray Spectroscopy of 34Ar and its Relevance
for the Astrophysical 33Cl(p,γ) Reaction
A. R. L. Kennington, G. Lotay, D. T. Doherty, D. Seweryniak, C. Andreoiu, K. Auranen,
M. P. Carpenter, W. N. Catford, C. M. Deibel, K. Hadyńska-Klęk, S. Hallam, D. E. M. Hoff,
T. Huang, R. V. F. Janssens, S. Jazrawi, J. José, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, J. Li, A. M.
Rogers, J. Saiz, G. Savard, S. Stolze, G. L. Wilson, S. Zhu
Physical Review Letters 124, 252702 (2020) Published 26 June 2020

 

Metastable States of 92,94Se: Identification of an Oblate K Isomer of 94Se and
the Ground-State Shape Transition between N=58 and 60
C. Lizarazo et al.
Physical Review Letters 124, 222501 (2020) Published 1 June 2020

https://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/857057/

 

γ-ray spectroscopy of a four-quasiparticle isomer band in 174Re
R. J. Carroll, P. M. Walker, G. J. Lane, M. W. Reed, A. Akber, H. M. Albers, J. J.
Carroll, D. M. Cullen, A. C. Dai, C. Fahlander, M. S. M. Gerathy, S. S. Hota, G.
Lotay, T. Kibédi, V. Margerin, A. J. Mitchell, N. Palalani, T. Palazzo, Z. Patel,
R. Shearman, A. E. Stuchbery, F. R. Xu
Physical Review C 101, 054314 (2020) Published 26 May 2020

 

Octupole states in 207Tl studied through β decay
T. A. Berry et al.
Physical Review C 101, 054311 (2020) Published 18 May 2020

https://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/857040/

 

Advances in the Direct Study of Carbon Burning in Massive Stars
G. Fruet et al.
Physical Review Letters 124, 192701 (2020) Published 12 May 2020

 

β-decay half-lives of 55 neutron-rich isotopes beyond the N=82 shell gap
J. Wu et al.
Physical Review C 101, 042801(R) (2020) Published 23 April 2020

 

Shape evolution of neutron-rich 106,108,110Mo isotopes in the triaxial degree of
freedom, J. Ha et al.
Physical Review C 101, 044311 (2020) Published 20 April 2020

https://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/856980/

 

Extending the southern shore of the island of inversion to 28F
A. Revel, O. Sorlin, F.M. Marques, Y. Kondo, J. Kahlbow, T. Nakamura, N.A. Orr, F.
Nowacki, J.A. Tostevin, C.X. Yuan, N.L. Achouri, H. Al Falou, L. Atar, T. Aumann, H.
Baba, K. Boretzky, C. Caesar, D. Calvet, H. Chae, N. Chiga, A. Corsi, H.L. Crawford,
F. Delaunay, A. Delbart, Q. Deshayes, Z. Dombradi, C. Douma, Z. Elekes, P. Fallon, I.
Gasparic, J.-M. Gheller, J. Gibelin, A. Gillibert, M.N. Harakeh, W. He, A. Hirayama,
C.R. Hoffman, M. Holl, A. Horvat, A. Horvath, J.W. Hwang, T. Isobe, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki,
S. Kawase, S. Kim, K. Kisamori, T. Kobayashi, D. Korper, S. Koyama, I. Kuti, V. Lapoux,
S. Lindberg, S. Masuoka, J. Mayer, K. Miki, T. Murakami, M. Najafi, K. Nakano, N. Nakatsuka,

T. Nilsson, A. Obertelli, F. de Oliveira Santos, H. Otsu, T. Ozaki, V. Panin, S. Paschalis, D.

Rossi, A. Saito, T. Saito, M. Sasano, H. Sato, Y. Satou, H. Scheit, F. Schindler, P. Schrock,

M. Shikata, Y. Shimizu, H. Simon, D. Sohler, L. Stuhl, S. Takeuchi, M. Tanaka, M.

Thoennessen, H. Toernqvist, Y. Togano, T. Tomai, J. Tscheuschner, J. Tsubota, T. Uesaka,

Z. Yang, M. Yasuda, K. Yoneda

Physical Review Letters 124, 152502 (2020) – Published 16 April 2020

https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00942

https://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/854133/
 

Two-neutron knockout as a probe of the composition of states in 22Mg, 23Al, and 24Si

B. Longfellow, A. Gade, J.A. Tostevin, E.C. Simpson, B.A. Brown, D. Bazin, P.C. Bender,

M. Bowry, B. Elman, E. Lunderberg, A. Magilligan, D. Rhodes, M. Spieker, D. Weisshaar,

S.J. Williams, Physical Review C 101, 031303(R) (2020) Published 12 March 2020

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11839

https://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/853839/

 

Decay properties of 22Ne+alpha resonances and their impact on s-process nucleosynthesis

S. Ota, G. Christian, G. Lotay, W.N. Catford, E.A. Bennett,  S. Dede, S. Hallam, J. Hooker,

C. Hunt, H. Jayatissa, C. Magana, A. Matta, M. Moukaddam, G.V. Rogachev, A. Saastamoinen,

J.A. Tostevin, S. Upadhyayula, R. Wilkinson

Physics Letters B 802, 135256 (2020) – Published 10 March 2020

https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08206

http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/853512/

 

Theory of deuteron stripping and pick-up reactions for nuclear structure studies

N.K. Timofeyuk, R.C. Johnson,

Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 111, 103738 (2020)  Published March 2020

http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/853170/

 

Testing ab initio nuclear structure in neutron-rich nuclei: Lifetime measurements of second
2+ state in 16C and 20O, M. Ciemała et al.
Physical Review C 101, 021303(R) (2020) Published 27 February 2020

 

A time-dependent Hartree-Fock study of triple-alpha dynamics

Paul D. Stevenson, J.L Willerton, 24th European Few Body Conference, 2-6 September

2019, University of Surrey, UK.  

SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 047 (2020) – Published 27 February 2020

https://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/853840/

 

Half-life measurements in 164,166Dy using g-g fast-timing spectroscopy with the n-Ball
spectrometer, R. L. Canavan et al.
Physical Review C 101, 024313 (2020) Published 26 February 2020

 

First exploration of neutron shell structure below lead and beyond N=126
T. L. Tang et al.
Physical Review Letters 124, 062502 (2020) Published 13 February 2020

http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/853499/

 

100 years of nuclear isomers - then and now

Philip M. Walker, Zs Podolyak

Physica Scripta 95, 044004 (2020) Published 13 February 2020

http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/853405/

 

Multi-quasiparticle sub-nanosecond isomers in 178W

 

How to extend the chart of nuclides?

G. G. Adamian, N. V. Antonenko, A. Diaz-Torres, S.Heinz

European Physics Journal A 56: 47 (2020) – Published 7 February 2020

http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/853662/

 

Novel chiral Hamiltonian and observables in light and medium-mass nuclei
V. Somŕ, P. Navrátil, F. Raimondi, C. Barbieri, T. Duguet
Physical Review C 101, 014318 (2020) Published 22 January 2020

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09790

 

Fragmentation of single-particle strength around the doubly-magic nucleus 132Sn

and the position of the 0f5/2 proton-hole state in 131In,
V. Vaquero, A. Jungclaus, T. Aumann, J. Tscheuschner, E.V. Litvinova, J.A. Tostevin,
H. Baba, D.S. Ahn, R. Avigo, K. Boretzky, A. Bracco, C. Caesar, A. Camera, S. Chen,
V. Derya, P. Doornenbal, J. Endres, N. Fukuda, U. Garg, A. Giaz, M.N. Harakeh, M.
Heil, A. Horvat, K. Ieki, N. Imai, N. Inabe, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, N. Kobayashi,
Y. Kondo, S. Koyama, T. Kubo, I. Martel, M. Matsushita, B. Million, T. Motobayashi,
T. Nakamura, N. Nakatsuka, M. Nishimura, S. Nishimura, S. Ota, H. Otsu, T. Ozaki, M.
Petri, R. Reifarth, J.L. Rodriguez-Sanchez, D. Rossi, A.T. Saito, H. Sakurai, D. Savran,

H. Scheit, F. Schindler, P. Schrock, D. Semmler, Y. Shiga, M. Shikata, Y.Shimizu, H.

Simon, D. Steppenbeck, H. Suzuki, T. Sumikama, D. Symochko, I. Syndikus,
H. Takeda, S. Takeuchi, R. Taniuchi, Y. Togano, J. Tsubota, H. Wang, O. Wieland,
K. Yoneda, J. Zenihiro, A. Zilges

Physical Review Letters 124, 022501 (2020) Published 13 January 2020

http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/853404/

 

Fusion reaction studies for the 9Be + 89Y system at above-barrier energies
G. S. Li, M. L. Liu, D. Patel, Y. D. Fang, X. H. Zhou, Y. H. Zhang, A. Diaz-Torres,
C. S. Palshetkar, J. Lubian, N. T. Zhang, J. G. Wang, B. S. Gao, Y. H. Qiang, S.
Guo, Y. Zheng, K. L. Wang, K. K. Zheng, R. Li, S. Mukherjee
Physical Review C 101, 014606 (2020) – Published 10 January 2020

http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/853558/

 

Low-Z boundary of the N = 88-90 shape phase transition: 148Ce near the critical point

Koseoglou, P., Werner, V., Pietralla, N., Ilieva, S., Nikšić, T., Vretenar, D., Alexa, P.,

Thűrauf, M., Bernards, C., Blanc, A. et al.

Physical Review C 101, 014303 (2020) Published 6 January 2020

http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/853251/

 

 


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