1. Examining the N=28 shell closure through high-precision mass measurements of 46–48Ar
- Author
-
Mougeot, M., Atanasov, D., Barbieri, C., Blaum, K., Breitenfeld, M., De Roubin, A., Duguet, T., George, S., Herfurth, F., Herlert, A., Holt, J.D., Karthein, J., Lunney, D., Manea, V., Navrátil, P., Neidherr, D., Rosenbusch, M., Schweikhard, L., Schwenk, A., Somà, V., Welker, A., Wienholtz, F., Wolf, R.N., Zuber, K., Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay
- Subjects
[PHYS.NUCL]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Theory [nucl-th] ,nucl-th ,Nuclear Theory ,FOS: Physical sciences ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Nuclear Structure ,nucl-ex ,Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) ,Nuclear Physics - Theory ,Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters ,Nuclear Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,Präzisionsexperimente - Abteilung Blaum ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The strength of the $N$ = 28 magic number in neutron-rich argon isotopes is examined through high-precision mass measurements of $^{46-48}$Ar, performed with the ISOLTRAP mass spectrometer at ISOLDE/CERN. The new mass values are up to 90 times more precise than previous measurements. While they suggest the persistence of the $N$ = 28 shell closure for argon, we show that this conclusion has to be nuanced in light of the wealth of spectroscopic data and theoretical investigations performed with the \emph{SDPF-U} phenomenological shell model interaction. Our results are also compared with \emph{ab initio} calculations using the Valence Space In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group and the Self-Consistent Green's Function approaches. Both calculations provide a very good account of mass systematics at and around $Z$ = 18 and, generally, a consistent description of the physics in this region. This combined analysis indicates that $^{46}$Ar is the transition between the closed-shell $^{48}$Ca and collective $^{44}$S., 17 pages, 14 figures
- Published
- 2020
- Full Text
- View/download PDF