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author Ge, Zhuang
Reponen, Mikael
Eronen, Tommi
Hu, Baishan
Kortelainen, Markus
Kankainen, Anu
Moore, Iain
Nesterenko, Dmitrii
Yuan, Cenxi
Beliuskina, Olga
Cañete, Laetitia
de Groote, Ruben
Delafosse, Celement
Delahaye, Pierre
Dickel, Timo
de Roubin, Antoine
Geldhof, Sarina
Gins, Wouter
Holt, Jason
Hukkanen, Marjut
Jaries, Arthur
Jokinen, Ari
Koszorús, Ágota
Kripkó-Koncz, Gabriella
Kujanpää, Sonja
Lam, Yihua
Nikas, Stylianos
Ortiz-Cortes, Alejandro
Penttilä, Heikki
Pitman-Weymouth, Daniel
Plaß, Wolfgang
Pohjalainen, Ilkka
Raggio, Andrea
Rinta-Antila, Sami
Romero, Jorge
Stryjczyk, Marek
Vilen, Markus
Virtanen, Ville
Zadvornaya, Alexandra
author_facet Ge, Zhuang
Reponen, Mikael
Eronen, Tommi
Hu, Baishan
Kortelainen, Markus
Kankainen, Anu
Moore, Iain
Nesterenko, Dmitrii
Yuan, Cenxi
Beliuskina, Olga
Cañete, Laetitia
de Groote, Ruben
Delafosse, Celement
Delahaye, Pierre
Dickel, Timo
de Roubin, Antoine
Geldhof, Sarina
Gins, Wouter
Holt, Jason
Hukkanen, Marjut
Jaries, Arthur
Jokinen, Ari
Koszorús, Ágota
Kripkó-Koncz, Gabriella
Kujanpää, Sonja
Lam, Yihua
Nikas, Stylianos
Ortiz-Cortes, Alejandro
Penttilä, Heikki
Pitman-Weymouth, Daniel
Plaß, Wolfgang
Pohjalainen, Ilkka
Raggio, Andrea
Rinta-Antila, Sami
Romero, Jorge
Stryjczyk, Marek
Vilen, Markus
Virtanen, Ville
Zadvornaya, Alexandra
contents High-precision mass measurements of exotic $^{95-97}$Ag isotopes close to the $N = Z$ line have been conducted with the JYFLTRAP double Penning trap mass spectrometer, with the silver ions produced using the recently commissioned inductively-heated hot cavity catcher laser ion source at the Ion Guide Isotope Separator On-Line facility. The atomic mass of $^{95}$Ag was directly determined for the first time. In addition, the atomic masses of $β$-decaying 2$^+$ and 8$^+$ states in $^{96}$Ag have been identified and measured for the first time, and the precision of the $^{97}$Ag mass has been improved. The newly measured masses, with a precision of $\approx$ 1 keV/c$^2$, have been used to investigate the $N =$ 50 neutron shell closure confirming it to be robust. Empirical shell-gap and pairing energies determined with the new ground-state mass data are compared with the state-of-the-art \textit{ab initio} calculations with various chiral effective field theory Hamiltonians. The precise determination of the excitation energy of the $^{96m}$Ag isomer in particular serves as a benchmark for \textit{ab initio} predictions of nuclear properties beyond the ground state, specifically for odd-odd nuclei situated in proximity to the proton dripline below $^{100}$Sn. In addition, density functional theory (DFT) calculations and configuration-interaction shell-model (CISM) calculations are compared with the experimental results. All theoretical approaches face challenges to reproduce the trend of nuclear ground-state properties in the silver isotopic chain across the $N =$50 neutron shell and toward the proton drip-line.
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spellingShingle High-precision mass measurements of neutron deficient silver isotopes probe the robustness of the $N$ = 50 shell closure
Ge, Zhuang
Reponen, Mikael
Eronen, Tommi
Hu, Baishan
Kortelainen, Markus
Kankainen, Anu
Moore, Iain
Nesterenko, Dmitrii
Yuan, Cenxi
Beliuskina, Olga
Cañete, Laetitia
de Groote, Ruben
Delafosse, Celement
Delahaye, Pierre
Dickel, Timo
de Roubin, Antoine
Geldhof, Sarina
Gins, Wouter
Holt, Jason
Hukkanen, Marjut
Jaries, Arthur
Jokinen, Ari
Koszorús, Ágota
Kripkó-Koncz, Gabriella
Kujanpää, Sonja
Lam, Yihua
Nikas, Stylianos
Ortiz-Cortes, Alejandro
Penttilä, Heikki
Pitman-Weymouth, Daniel
Plaß, Wolfgang
Pohjalainen, Ilkka
Raggio, Andrea
Rinta-Antila, Sami
Romero, Jorge
Stryjczyk, Marek
Vilen, Markus
Virtanen, Ville
Zadvornaya, Alexandra
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
High-precision mass measurements of exotic $^{95-97}$Ag isotopes close to the $N = Z$ line have been conducted with the JYFLTRAP double Penning trap mass spectrometer, with the silver ions produced using the recently commissioned inductively-heated hot cavity catcher laser ion source at the Ion Guide Isotope Separator On-Line facility. The atomic mass of $^{95}$Ag was directly determined for the first time. In addition, the atomic masses of $β$-decaying 2$^+$ and 8$^+$ states in $^{96}$Ag have been identified and measured for the first time, and the precision of the $^{97}$Ag mass has been improved. The newly measured masses, with a precision of $\approx$ 1 keV/c$^2$, have been used to investigate the $N =$ 50 neutron shell closure confirming it to be robust. Empirical shell-gap and pairing energies determined with the new ground-state mass data are compared with the state-of-the-art \textit{ab initio} calculations with various chiral effective field theory Hamiltonians. The precise determination of the excitation energy of the $^{96m}$Ag isomer in particular serves as a benchmark for \textit{ab initio} predictions of nuclear properties beyond the ground state, specifically for odd-odd nuclei situated in proximity to the proton dripline below $^{100}$Sn. In addition, density functional theory (DFT) calculations and configuration-interaction shell-model (CISM) calculations are compared with the experimental results. All theoretical approaches face challenges to reproduce the trend of nuclear ground-state properties in the silver isotopic chain across the $N =$50 neutron shell and toward the proton drip-line.
title High-precision mass measurements of neutron deficient silver isotopes probe the robustness of the $N$ = 50 shell closure
topic Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07976