Search for highly excited states in ²⁸Si
Date
2017
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Publisher
IOP Publishing
Abstract
The theoretical and experimental determination of superdeformed states in nuclei
in the mass region A≤40 has been since a long time one of the major challenges of nuclear
structure studies. Despite the considerable experimental and theoretical work dedicated to
this topic, up to now superdeformed bands have been found in only two nuclei, ³⁶Ar and ⁴⁰Ca.
While the experimental signature of the superdeformed nature of those states is irrefutable, their
theoretical interpretation is still uncertain. In particular, it is not clear whether clusterisation
is responsible of the onset of superdeformation. For this reason, we wanted to investigate an
even lighter system, ²⁸Si, where a number of theoretical calculations predict the presence of
superdeformation as an effect of the cluster structure of the nucleus.
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CITATION: Montanari, D., et al. 2017. Search for highly excited states in ²⁸Si. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 863(1):012051, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/863/1/012051.
Keywords
Nucleus, Clusterisation, Superdeformation, Nuclear physics
Citation
Montanari, D., et al. 2017. Search for highly excited states in ²⁸Si. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 863(1):012051, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/863/1/012051