Recent Publications

                Nuclear Physics Group

                Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

Recent publications, paper submissions and e-prints:

Copies of many publications, reprints and e-prints by Group members are available

through the University of Surrey OpenResearch portal and research paper repository.

Some of the most recent are included and linked below.

The core of 25F studied by the 25F(--p) proton-removal reaction

H.L. Crawford, M.D. Jones, A.O. Macchiavelli, P. Fallon, D. Bazin, P. C. Bender, B.A. Brown,

C.M. Campbell, R.M. Clark, M. Cromaz, A. Gade, J.D. Holt, R.V.F. Janssens, I.Y. Lee,

S. Paschalis, M. Petri, M. Salathe, J. A. Tostevin, D. Weisshaar – submitted

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02162

Dissipative reactions with intermediate-energy beams -- a novel approach to populate

complex-structure states in rare isotopes, A. Gade, B.A. Brown, D. Weisshaar, D. Bazin,

K.W. Brown, R.J. Charity, P. Farris, A.M. Hill, J. Li, B. Longfellow, D. Rhodes, W. Reviol,

J.A. Tostevin – submitted

Exploiting dissipative reactions to perform in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of

the neutron-deficient isotopes 38,39Ca, A. Gade, D. Weisshaar, B.A. Brown, D. Bazin,

K.W. Brown, R.J. Charity, P. Farris, A.M. Hill, J. Li, B. Longfellow, D. Rhodes, W. Reviol,

J.A. Tostevin – submitted

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01106

$β$ -Delayed One and Two Neutron Emission Probabilities Southeast of 132 $Sn$ and the

Odd-Even Systematics in $r$ -Process Nuclide Abundances

V. H. Phong et al.

Physical Review Letters 129, 172701 (2022) – Published 18 October 2022

Shell-model study on spectroscopic properties in the region “south” of 208 $Pb$

Cenxi Yuan, Menglan Liu, Noritaka Shimizu, Zs. Podolyák, Toshio Suzuki, Takaharu

Otsuka, Zhong Liu, Physical Review C 106, 044314 (2022) – Published 17 October 2022

Determination of 57 $Co (n, x p$ ) cross sections using the surrogate reaction ratio method

Ramandeep Gandhi, S. Santra, A. Pal, B. K. Nayak, P. C. Rout, D. Chattopadhyay,

A. Kundu, A. Baishya, T. Santhosh, S. K. Pandit, G. Mohanto, A. Diaz-Torres

Physical Review C 106, 034609 (2022) – Published 23 September 2022

Structure of 126,128 $Xe$ studied in Coulomb excitation measurements

S. Kisyov, C. Y. Wu, J. Henderson, A. Gade, K. Kaneko, Y. Sun, N. Shimizu, T. Mizusaki,

D. Rhodes, S. Biswas, A. Chester, M. Devlin, P. Farris, A. M. Hill, J. Li, E. Rubino, D. Weisshaar

Physical Review C 106, 034311 (2022) – Published 19 September 2022

Evidence for spherical-oblate shape coexistence in 87 $Tc$

X. Liu et al.

Physical. Review C 106, 034304 (2022) – Published 9 September 2022

Evidence of Partial Seniority Conservation in the $π$ g9/2 Shell for the $N = 50$ Isotones

R. M. Pérez-Vidal et al.

Physical Review Letters 129, 112501 (2022) – Published 7 September 2022

Spectroscopy of the T = 3/2 A=47 and A=45 mirror nuclei via one- and two-nucleon

knockout reactions, S. Uthayakumaar, M.A. Bentley, E.C. Simpson, T. Haylett, R. Yajzey,

W. Satula, D. Bazin, J.A. Belarge, P.C. Bender, P.J. Davies, B. A. Elman, A. Gade, H.

Iwasaki, D. Kahl, N. Kobayashi, S.M. Lenzi, B.R. Longfellow, S.J. Lonsdale, E.M.

Lunderberg, L. Morris, D.R. Napoli, T.G. Parry, X. Pereira-Lopez, F. Recchia,

J.A. Tostevin, R. Wadsworth, D. Weisshaar

Physical Review C 106, 024327 (2022) – Published 25 August 2022

https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/99669366602346

Identification of excited states in 188 $Bi$ and 188 $Po$

W. Q. Zhang et al.

Physical Review C 106, 024317 (2022) – Published 17 August 2022

Total absorption $γ$ -ray spectroscopy of the $β$ decays of 96gs,m $Y$

V. Guadilla et al.

Physical Review C 106, 014306 (2022) – Published 13 July 2022

New narrow resonances observed in the unbound nucleus 15 $F$

V. Girard-Alcindor et al.

Physical Review C 105, L051301 (2022) – Published 11 May 2022

First Application of Mass Measurements with the Rare-RI Ring Reveals the Solar

$r$ -Process Abundance Trend at $A = 122$ and $A = 123$ , H. F. Li et al.

Physical Review Letters 128, 152701 (2022) – Published 15 April 2022

Revised decay properties of the key 93-keV resonance in the 25 $Mg (p, γ)$ reaction and

its influence on the MgAl cycle in astrophysical environments

G. Lotay, D.T. Doherty, R.V.F. Janssens, D. Seweryniak, H.M. Albers, S. Almaraz-

Calderon, M.P. Carpenter, A.E. Champagne, C.J. Chiara, C.R. Hoffman, C. Iliadis,

A. Kankainen, T. Lauritsen, S. Zhu,

Physical Review C 105, L042801 (2022) – Published 4 April 2022

Coulomb excitation of the $|$ Tz $|$ =1/2 $, A = 23$ mirror pair

J. Henderson, G. Hackman, P. Ruotsalainen, J.D. Holt, S.R. Stroberg et al.

Physical Review C 105, 034332 (2022) – Published 28 March 2022

Systematics of $E 2$ strength in the $s d$ shell with the valence-space in-medium similarity

renormalization group, S.R. Stroberg, J. Henderson, G. Hackman, P. Ruotsalainen,

G. Hagen, J.D. Holt, Physical Review C 105, 034333 (2022) – Published 28 March 2022

Ground-state $β$ -decay spectroscopy of 187 $Ta$

M. Mukai, Y. Hirayama, Y. X. Watanabe, H. Watanabe, H. Koura, S. C. Jeong,

H. Miyatake, M. Brunet, S. Ishizawa, F. G. Kondev, G. J. Lane, Yu. A. Litvinov,

T. Niwase, M. Oyaizu, Zs. Podolyák, M. Rosenbusch, P. Schury, M. Wada,

P. M. Walker, Physical Review C 105, 034331 (2022) – Published 25 March 2022

Nature of seniority symmetry breaking in the semimagic nucleus 94 $Ru$

B. Das, B. Cederwall, C. Qi, M. Górska, P. H. Regan, Ö. Aktas, H. M. Albers et al.

Physical Review C 105, L031304 (2022) – Published 25 March 2022

In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of 32Mg via direct reactions
N. Kitamura, K. Wimmer, A. Poves, N. Shimizu, T. Miyagi, J.A. Tostevin, 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, F. Nowacki, G. Perdikakis,

F. Recchia, T. Redpath, S. Saenz, D. Smalley, S.R. Stroberg, Y. Utsuno,

D. Weisshaar, A. Westerberg

Physical Review C 105, 034318 (2022) – Published 16 March 2022

https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.12820

Cross sections of removal reactions populating weakly-bound residual nuclei

J.A. Tostevin – posted on arXiv 14 March 2022

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.06058

Mirror nucleon removal reactions in p-shell nuclei
A.N. Kuchera, D. Bazin, T. Phan, J.A. Tostevin, M. Babo, T. Baumann, P.C.Bender,

M. Bowry, J. Bradt, J. Brown, P.A. DeYoung, B. Elman, J.E. Finck, A. Gade, G.F.

Grinyer, M.D. Jones, B. Longfellow, E. Lunderberg, T.H. Redpath, W.F. Rogers,

K. Stiefel, M. Thoennessen, D. Votaw, D. Weisshaar, K. Whitmore, R.B. Wiringa

Physical Review C 105, 034314 (2022) – Published 11 March 2022

https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/99644765002346

Border of the Island of Inversion: Unbound excited states in 29Ne
M. Holl, S. Lindberg, A. Heinz, Y. Kondo, T. Nakamura, J.A. Tostevin, H. Wang,
T. Nilsson, N.L. Achouri, H. Al Falou, L. Atar, T. Aumann, et al.

Physical Review C 105, 034301 (2022) – Published 1 March 2022

https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05620

Evolution of shape and collectivity along the Ge isotopic chain: The case of 80 $Ge$

D. Rhodes, B. A. Brown, A. Gade, S. Biswas, A. Chester, P. Farris, J. Henderson,

A. Hill, J. Li, F. Nowacki, E. Rubino, D. Weisshaar, and C. Y. Wu

Physical Review C 105, 024325 (2022) – Published 22 February 2022

$γ$ -ray spectroscopy of low-lying yrast and non-yrast states in neutron-rich 94,95,96 $Kr$

R.-B. Gerst et al.

Physical Review C 105, 024302 (2022) – Published 3 February 2022

Radiative capture on nuclear isomers: Direct measurement of the 26mAl( $p, γ)27$ Si

reaction, G. Lotay, A. Lennarz, C. Ruiz, C. Akers, A. A. Chen, G. Christian, D.

Connolly, B. Davids, T. Davinson, J. Fallis, D. A. Hutcheon, P. Machule, L. Martin,

D. J. Mountford, A. St. J. Murphy,

Physical Review Letters 128, 042701 (2022) – Published 27 January 2022

Clarifying the structure of low-lying states in 72Br

J. A. Briz, M. J. G. Borge, B. Rubio, J. Agramunt, A. Algora, A. Y. Deo, M. E.

Estévez Aguado, G. Farrelly, L. M. Fraile, W. Gelletly, A. Maira, E. Nácher, A. Perea,

Zs. Podolyák, A. Poves, P. Sarriguren, O. Tengblad

Physical Review C 105, 014323 (2022) – Published 25 January 2022

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