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Scattering And Absorption of Light in Planetary Regoliths
Published on: July 1, 2019
Shape coexistence in light se isotopes: evidence for oblate shapes
J Ljungvall1, A Görgen, M Girod
1CEA-Saclay, DAPNIA/SPhN, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.
Abstract:
Lifetimes of states in the ground-state bands of (70)Se and (72)Se were measured using the recoil-distance Doppler shift method. The results deviate significantly from earlier measurements, requiring a revision of the conclusions drawn from a recent Coulomb excitation experiment concerning the shape of (70)Se. The new results lead to a coherent picture of shape coexistence in the neutron-deficient selenium and krypton isotopes. The coexistence and evolution of oblate and prolate shapes in this mass region is for the first time consistently described by new Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov-based configuration-mixing calculations which were performed using the Gogny D1S interaction.
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