Speaker
Dr
Nico Orce
(University of the Western Cape)
Description
Remarkable measurements with the (p,t) reaction using the Q3D magnetic spectrograph at the University of Munich MP tandem accelerator revealed many 0+ excitations lying at relatively low excitation energies in rare earth region nuclei. A total of 11 excited 0+ states were observed in 158Gd below an excitation energy of about 3.1 MeV. This abundance of 0+ states in a single nucleus provides significant new information on this poorly understood phenomenon. Theory, however, predicts less 0+ states than those experimentally characterised. The combination of Coulomb-excitation, electron-conversion, (p,t) and (3He,n) transfer reactions at iThemba LABS will provide a means to characterise the nature of these exciting 0+ states.
Primary author
Dr
Nico Orce
(University of the Western Cape)
